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.
  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    27 days ago

    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.

    • AlbinoPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      26 days ago

      It really is weird stuff. Kerbal Space Program is a great way to experience that counterintuitiveness (is that a word?).

      • TachyonTeleEnglish
        3·
        26 days ago

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