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NASA’s Juno probe Gets Gravity Speed Boost during Earth Flyby But Enters...
Developing story - NASA’s Juno-bound Jupiter orbiter successfully blazed past Earth this afternoon (Oct. 9) and gained its huge and critical gravity assisted speed boost that’s absolutely essential to...
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Jupiter Bound Juno snaps Dazzling Gallery of Planet Earth Portraits
Juno Portrait of Earth This false color composite shows more than half of Earth’s disk over the coast of Argentina and the South Atlantic Ocean as the Juno probe slingshotted by on Oct. 9, 2013 for a...
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Mariner 10: Best Venus Image and 1st Ever Planetary Gravity Assist – 40 Years...
Exactly 40 Years ago today on Feb. 5, 1974, Mariner 10, accomplished a history making and groundbreaking feat when the NASA science probe became the first spacecraft ever to test out and execute the...
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How Can We Move the Earth?
Sooner or later we're going to want to move the Earth further away from the Sun. It turns out, there are a few techniques that might actually make this possible. Not easy, but possible. You live here....
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How Do Gravitational Slingshots Work?
Have you ever heard that spacecraft can speed themselves up by performing gravitational slingshot maneuvers? What's involved to get yourself going faster across the Solar System. Let’s say you want to...
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Rosetta Arrives at ‘Scientific Disneyland’ for Ambitious Study of Comet...
The image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August 2014 from a distance of 285 km. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team...
View ArticleNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampler Slingshots Around Earth Friday, Sept. 22 –...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to snatch a soil sample from a pristine asteroid and return it to Earth for...
View ArticleNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Captures Lovely Blue Marble during Gravity Assist Swing-by...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely ‘Blue Marble’ image of our Home Planet during last Fridays (Sept. 22) successful gravity assist swing-by sending the...
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Two Spacecraft are Flying Past Venus, Just 33 Hours Apart
When Longfellow wrote about “ships passing in the night” back in 1863, he probably wasn’t thinking about satellites passing near Venus. He probably also wouldn’t have considered 575,000 km separation...
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2029 Will be the Perfect Year to Launch a Mission to Sedna
Object 90377 Sedna – a distant trans-Neptunian object known best for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year long orbit – is currently on its way towards perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun) in...
View ArticleFlying to (Hypothetical) Planet 9: Why visit it, how could we get there, and...
In a recent study submitted to Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, an international team of researchers discuss the various mission design options for reaching a hypothetical Planet 9, also known as...
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