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		chupa-chups on April 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gravity assist maneuvers in space Nice article. For even more information regarding gravity assists (and related effects like the Oberth effect) I found these articles in my comfort zone between too much detail and too superficial: https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/1.2341882 - sorry, just learnt this is not an open access article https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/1.5126818 (Oberth Effect)

TeMPOraL on April 26, 2020 | [–]

> sorry, just learnt this is not an open access article

There is no such thing as "not open access article".

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2341882

(With a big thank you to Alexandra Elbakyan.)

codeduck on April 26, 2020 | [–]

Love the reference to Kerbal space program as orbital mechanics software :)

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