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Gravity Assist
A gravity assist (or swing-by) maneuver uses the gravitational field of a planet or other celestial body to alter a spacecraft's trajectory and velocity without expending fuel. Discovered by Michael Minovitch at JPL in 1961, this technique is crucial for reaching distant planets economically. It works by exploiting the relative motion between the spacecraft, the assisting body, and the Sun.
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Gravity Assist Maneuver
Taxonomic method recordprocess-pipelineapplied-physics
Curtis, H. D. (2013). Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students (3rd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. · ISBN 978-0-08-102133-0
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