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From: brent@phoenix.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Gravity slingshots
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 09:10:13 EDT
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Jupiter must be a very attractive gravity well to NASA mission
planners.  I remember a couple of years ago a NASA/ESA combined
mission using two identical spacecraft was planned and 
subsequently canned.

The spacecraft were to investigate to solar magnetosphere from 
above and below the north and south poles of the sun 
( out of the plane of the solar system).

So where did they plan to launch the spacecraft ? ... out to Jupiter !!
Each spacecraft was to get a combined plane change and slingshot
in opposite directions back to Sol.

I hope they made arrangements for mutual overtaking on the
back side of Jupiter. :-)
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