To that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer
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sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
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.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
sparkee@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is real and NASA does use it.
science.nasa.gov/learn/…/primer/