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If you were trying to land on a specific site though, couldn't you drop down a dozen or so transmitters at the potential landing site? The assign them a location, and have them transmit the relative location to anything landing near them?

tliltocatl
How would you drop them? Don't think a radio transmitter would survive a hard landing, so you will need a proper lander (with altimeter) for each transmitter. And at that point you can just strap your actual payload instead of the transmitter.
scoofy OP
The point would be you could drop them a bit randomly, once they land, find out where they are, and tell them where they are, to then talk back to the payload as it's landing.

It's the moon, even a hard landing isn't that hard.

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