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Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby (www.esa.int)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

counterintuivootion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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