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From: LMASSONN@ESOC.BITNET (Lutz Massonne)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Giotto - first Earth gravity assist manoeuvre?
Message-ID: <91168.102135LMASSONN@ESOC.BITNET>
Date: 17 Jun 91 08:53:51 GMT
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Organisation: ESOC (European Space Operations Centre), Darmstadt, Germany
Disclaimer: The opinions stated below are mine, ALL MINE

As far as I remember, ICE used MOON fly-bys to get away from
its Lagrange point position.
That was a rather complicated task (NASA produced a nice brochure
showing the very complex orbit as they needed a lot of moon fly-bys
to achieve the orbital velocity to get away from earth)
to re-use this probe never foreseen to be a comet explorer,
but Giotto really did the first controlled earth-gravity assist
manoeuvre (shortly before Galileo :-) ).

Regards, Lutz Massonne