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caycep on April 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gravity assist maneuvers in space

I am just amused at all the gravity assist loop de loops portrayed in The Expanse. That seems to take just 10 minutes at a time...

At any rate I suppose computers in the future can calculate these multiples of assist trajectories on the fly...

kamilner on April 26, 2020 [–]

The executive producer actually wrote a post after the episode in Season 2 as a bit of an explanation/apology for how it ended up that way, which I thought was a nice touch: http://www.danielabraham.com/2017/04/04/guest-post-losing-sc...

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