flybys
- plural of flyby.
Example Sentences
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“Juno had two really close flybys of Io during Juno’s extended mission,” Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, the mission’s principal investigator, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
It needed to make nine flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury before it could reach the right speed to be captured by Mercury's gravity.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
To get there, the spacecraft has to follow a circuitous flight path that so far has included a swing around Earth, two Venus flybys, and three passes by Mercury.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
Researchers hope to apply their new aging method to other binary systems where dynamics have been well characterized, even without close flybys.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024
The spacecraft will make dozens of close flybys of Europa — nearly the size of our moon — while orbiting the giant gas planet.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
