Comment on Little Pea Shooters

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• rooster_butt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Jupiter is used as a gravity assist to launch satellites further. This maneuver is known as a slingshot.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What worries me is that they’re stealing a little bit of Jupiter’s momentum every time. If they’re not careful it’ll fall towards the sun and we’ll have a Jupiter landing on our heads.

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    • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s alright, we send someone out every few years to give it a bit of a wind up, like a grandfather clock.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah ok. I remember we also did this with the Moon

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  • Zuriz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    sg1 taught us that.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      or a black hole.

      Not a physicist but i don’t think a black hole would work…

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      • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why wouldn’t it? A gravity well is a gravity well. As long as you remain outside the event horizon it should work in the same way.

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• funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Spacecraft can use the gravitional energy from Jupiter to perform a “slingshot” maneuver, gaining significant momentum and reaching the outer solar system with less fuel.

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• isame@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  NASA uses Jupiter’s gravity well to slingshot craft into farther orbits.

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