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Rosetta Spacecraft's Orbital Journey

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the maths-make-my-head-hurt dept.

novak writes:

Motherboard.com has a video of the orbital trajectory of the Rosetta probe, showing the trajectory as the spacecraft approached the comet. It's a fun, non-controversial view in this rather partisan time, unless I suppose, you're a flat-earther (in which case, you brought it on yourself). You can see the numerous small delta-Vs as sharp corners in the spacecraft's trajectory, and the very unusual trajectory as the craft orbits a body with weak gravity that is decidedly not centrobaric.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @01:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @01:27PM (#447065)

    Makes those meandering paths Jeffy takes in "Family Circus" look kinda direct by comparison!

    AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! For years I would have loved to have launched Jeffy to a comet, or just anywhere outside of the Earth's gravitational sphere of influence!