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llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 months ago

Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

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Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

www.esa.int

llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 months ago
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.
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    It really is weird stuff. Kerbal Space Program is a great way to experience that counterintuitiveness (is that a word?).

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      counterintuivootion

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      Absolutely. Kerbal is an excellent way to learn orbital mechanics. I think they even have an educational version.

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