gravity assist
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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After skimming the inner edge of the main asteroid belt, Lucy heads back toward Earth for a gravity assist in December 2024.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
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
As the spacecraft left the Jupiter system, they got a farewell kick of 35,700 miles per hour from a gravity assist.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022
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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