| Title | Rosetta Spacecraft's Orbital Journey | |
| Date | Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:36AM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the maths-make-my-head-hurt dept. | ||
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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