To the planets on a shoestring

Robert Adler
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Nature, 2000, vol. 408, issue 6812, 510-512

Abstract: Small space probes can thumb a ride into space and then hurl themselves around the Solar System using orbital gymnastics — meaning that you no longer need bottomless pockets to do planetary science. Robert Adler talks to the thrifty engineers who are making it happen.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35046259

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