Gravity

Gravity Propulsion

Gravity Propulsion

Gravity-Assisted In the early 1960s, a graduate student named Michael Minovitch working at JPL developed a way to use a planet’s gravitation as a method of propulsion. Gravity-assisted maneuvers work by transferring angular momentum from an orbiting planet to a passing spacecraft. A spacecraft’s trajectory is adjusted so that it will make a fairly...

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