flyby
or fly-by
the flight of a spacecraft close enough to a celestial object, as a planet, to gather scientific data.
Aeronautics.
Also called flypast. a low-altitude flight of an aircraft for the benefit of ground observers.
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How to use flyby in a sentence
There has been talk in the last couple of months that some at NASA are seeking a mission extension to September 2025, so that Juno can do flybys of some of Jupiter’s moons and study them up close.
The 11 biggest space missions of 2021 (and their chances of success) | Neel Patel | January 4, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe Soviets were pursuing an ambitious flight schedule in an attempt to keep up with their American counterparts, designing spacecraft and rocketry for lunar landings, lunar flybys and earth orbiting.
It’s for a lunar flyby mission that NASA has planned for 2022.
Surviving Mars missions will take planning and lots of innovation | Maria Temming | October 22, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThe flyby is meant to use Venus’s gravity as a speed-reducing force to adjust the trajectory of the spacecraft on to its eventual destination.
A spacecraft en route to Mercury just caught this fresh new look at Venus | Neel Patel | October 15, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewNew Zealand–based Rocket Lab wants to launch a small satellite called Photon for a flyby of Venus as early as 2023.
We need to go to Venus as soon as possible | Neel Patel | September 16, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
British Dictionary definitions for flyby
/ (ˈflaɪˌbaɪ) /
a flight past a particular position or target, esp the close approach of a spacecraft to a planet or satellite for investigation of conditions
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