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Mit: Blossoms: Gravity Assist Stealing a Planet's Angular Momentum Instructional Video

Mit: Blossoms: Gravity Assist Stealing a Planet's Angular Momentum Instructional Video

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mit: Blossoms: Gravity Assist Stealing a Planet's Angular Momentum

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This video lesson will present Gravity Assist, or what is wrongly referred to as the gravitational slingshot. Gravity assist is a maneuver performed by interplanetary spacecraft to travel farther on less fuel. It is a classic exercise in Newtonian mechanics. [37:49]

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