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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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Rosetta Spacecraft's Orbital Journey
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(Score: 2) by mrchew1982 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @02:48PM
"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)"
Even if it is tongue-in-cheek the partisan-baiting getting old. Remember Poe's Law.
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Wednesday December 28 2016, @06:26PM
I knew Rosetta made a few "triangular" shaped orbits while approaching the comet, but holy shit, I had no idea the whole mission was that complex. I guess I had assumed that, aside from lander insertion, it was all just elliptical orbits up to the end-of-mission impact.
Makes those meandering paths Jeffy takes in "Family Circus" look kinda direct by comparison!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @01:27PM
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!
(Score: 1) by segwonk on Friday December 30 2016, @06:57AM
"but holy shit, I had no idea the whole mission was that complex. I guess I had assumed that, aside from lander insertion, it was all just elliptical orbits up to the end-of-mission impact."
Yeah, seriously - how did it carry enough fuel for all those maneuvers?
.......go til ya know.