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Aerogravity assists

Hypersonic maneuvering to improve planetary gravity assists

Interplanetary missions use gravitational slingshots around planetary bodies to adjust their heliocentric velocity or inclination for quite some time. The momentum exchange that can be achieved during a so-called gravity assist is limited by the mass of the planetary body. To ove ...