On Nov. 6, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its seventh and final Venus gravity-assist maneuver, passing within 240 miles ...

A spacecraft can further maximize a gravity assist by employing a technique known as the Oberth maneuver, or powered flyby, in which the spacecraft fires its engines while exploiting the planet's ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its ...

He held various jobs at JPL, working on missile trajectories and aerodynamics, before landing with a team calculating how to use a gravity assist maneuver for Mariner 10's Venus and Mercury flyby.

The spunky probe's final gravity assist around Venus will put it on track to break records near the Sun next month.

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

TESS was injected into an orbit aligned for a gravity assist maneuver one month later with the Moon to send the telescope into its operational 13.65-day orbit of Earth. TESS’s orbit is highly ...

The Juice spacecraft is now on its way to Venus, where it will complete a gravity assist maneuver before heading back to Earth for another gravity assist to attain the momentum needed for its ...

Specially trained pilots perform these aerobatic maneuvers, which are not simulated in any way. Each parabola offers about 30 seconds of zero gravity during which everything inside the plane ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus's surface. The flyby will adjust Parker's ...