Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days agoIf it works it workslemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up17
arrow-up17imageIf it works it workslemmy.dbzer0.comStamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoI once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it’s only something in movies, it doesn’t really exist.
minus-squareRakonat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoTo that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer
minus-squaresparkee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoIt is real and NASA does use it. https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/primer/
I once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it’s only something in movies, it doesn’t really exist.
To that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer
It is real and NASA does use it.
https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/primer/