gravity assist
Americannoun
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This technique, known as a gravity assist, helped place Psyche on the correct path toward its ultimate destination, the metal-rich asteroid Psyche.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
After leaving Dinky, the probe will head back to Earth for a gravity assist maneuver in December 2024.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 8, 2023
It will skim the inner edge of the main asteroid belt before looping back toward Earth for a gravity assist that will fling it out toward the Trojans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
We’ll use a gravity assist from the moon and then the Earth to make the orbital capture.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023
This enabled the two Voyagers to use a "gravity assist" technique in which the craft were successively flung from one gassy giant to the next in a kind of cosmic version of "crack the whip."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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