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minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it’s only something in movies, it doesn’t really exist.
minus-squaresparkee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoIt is real and NASA does use it. https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/primer/
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoTo that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer
I once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it’s only something in movies, it doesn’t really exist.
It is real and NASA does use it.
https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/primer/
To that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer