Explore: Spacecraft Trajectories

rings. The gravitational assist trajectories at Jupiter were successfully carried out by both Voyagers, and the two spacecraft went on to visit Saturn and

propulsive maneuver, which is used to send a spacecraft to the Moon. Typical lunar transfer trajectories approximate Hohmann transfers, although low-energy

both spacecraft and natural astronomical bodies such as star systems, planets, moons, and comets. Orbital mechanics focuses on spacecraft trajectories, including

Wilson in 1969 to study Earth-Moon spacecraft transfer trajectories. In the context of an Earth-Moon-spacecraft three-body system, the pseudostate method

trajectories, all hyperbolic trajectories are also escape trajectories. The specific energy of a hyperbolic trajectory orbit is positive. Planetary flybys

Trajectories of distant spacecraft from launch to 2030 Several space probes and the upper stages of their launch vehicles are leaving the Solar System

original trajectory took it within 64,000 km (40,000 mi) of the asteroid, but a series of maneuvers from May to September 2023 moved the spacecraft's trajectory

orbits). More recently, it has also become useful to calculate spacecraft trajectories. Henri Poincaré published two now classical monographs, "New Methods

NSSD – Spacecraft – Trajectory Details (SAS-B)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-11-29. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details

trajectory towards the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) and enabled further encounters with the ice giants (Uranus and Neptune). The only spacecraft to