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Gravity Slingshot: How One Grad Student's Insight Launched Interplanetary Exploration

Posted June 30, 2016 3:03 PM by wagman262

NASA's Juno spacecraft is slated to reach Jupiter on July 4 and -- if all goes well -- start its scientific study of the planet later this year. Read this reprise of a 2014 profile Engineering360 published on the UCLA grad student who 55 years ago developed the science behind interplanetary exploration.

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06/30/2016 7:28 PM

I remember reading about the "Grand Tour" of the solar system in the Sunday newspaper magazine, where the planetary alignments would allow visiting all but Pluto. It was a new idea back then, slingshotting off one planet to reach the next.

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07/03/2016 10:48 AM

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/grav/primer.php
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