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Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby(www.esa.int)

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teft@lemmy.world
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I love how counter intuitive orbital mechanics are. Speed it up a little as it passes the Moon, then earth slowing it down to get to Venus to accelerate it out to jupiter faster is some outside the box thinking.

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AlbinoPython@lemmy.world
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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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TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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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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