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Satellite Imagination: Pioneer’s Near Miss

Posted on 14 May 2013 by catholicsensibility

In 1961, UCLA grad student Michael Minovitch (image here) figured out the gravity assist maneuver for space travel. The young mathematician, working for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), crunched some numbers. And the numbers showed that if a rocket was aimed … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Satellite Imagination | Tagged Jupiter, NASA, Saturn, space exploration | 1 Comment

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