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Bagenal, F.; Delamere, P. A.; Elliott, H. A.; Hill, M. E.; Lisse, C. M.; McComas, D. J.; McNutt Jr, R. L.; Richardson, J. D.; Smith, C. W.; Strobel, D. F. (2015). "Solar wind at 33 AU: Setting bounds on the Pluto interaction for New Horizons".
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In regards to Mars flybys, a related concept is a Mars flyby rendezvous, where a spacecraft does not enter orbit but rendezvous before or after a flyby of the planet with another spacecraft. Mars flyby rendezvous was evaluated at NASA's
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lander EDL (they were launched towards Mars with the cruise stage carrying the InSight lander). Both MarCOs reached Mars and successfully relayed data during the Entry, Descent, and Landing phase of Insight on November 26, 2018.
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was radar imaged at distance of 2.2 million miles (3,500,000 km) from Earth in 2016, during its flyby. This enabled the size of the nucleus to be calculated to about 3,300 feet (1 km) in diameter.
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in on its transit to Mars, in September 2020 and made a flyby of Mars around 10 February, 2021 according to its trajectory thought for Mars, before entering the deep space or a solar orbit.
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performed the most distant flyby to date, of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth. New Horizons previously did a flyby of Pluto in July 2015, and that was at about 32.9 AU (
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flyby of Mars in 1969 caused another breakthrough in knowledge about the planet. The Mariner 6 & 7 infrared radiometer results from he flyby showed that the
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had its closest approach of Earth, coming within 7.1 million miles or 11.4 million kilometres (one of its closest approaches to Earth).
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in the 1960s. At that time NASA developed designs for a combination of a Mars lander, short-stay surface habitat, and ascent vehicle called a
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flyby of Mars in July 1965 returned more accurate atmospheric data about Mars and much closer views of its surface then previously.
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Flyby is also sometimes loosely used to describe when, for example, an asteroid approaches and coasts by the Earth.
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doing a flyby of the distance of 7,800 km (4,800 mi) of the nucleus on September 11, 1985.
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flybys of Earth for example. Important parameters are the time and distance of closest approach.
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Woods, W. David; Kemppanen, Johannes; Turhanov, Alexander; Waugh, Lennox J. (May 30, 2017).
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spacecraft trajectory around Saturn over 10 years, during which it passed closely by many
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spacecraft had an exploded oxygen tank, and therefore had to flyby around the Moon. The
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Chdse, S. C. (1969-03-01). "Infrared radiometer for the 1969 mariner mission to Mars".
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lander; the flybys provided bent pipe communication support during the landing in 2018
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During an asteroid flyby of Earth, sometimes they are imaged by radar. Animation of
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s had its first flyby of Titan in October 2004. For further examples of
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6U cubesat relay flyby probes and technology demonstrators for the Mars
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Another application of the flyby is of Earth's Moon, usually called a
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This was also the term for when a comet did a flyby of Mars in 2014.
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On the night of December 31, 2018 to the morning of January 1, 2019
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trajectory around Saturn from 1 May 2004 to 15 September 2017
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passes in proximity to another body, usually a target of its
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Cassini conducted many flybys at various distances of the
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Deliberate crash landings on extraterrestrial bodies
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Index

Flyby (astronomy)

Voyager 2
Ganymede

243 Ida
/ˈflb/
spaceflight
spacecraft
space exploration
gravity assist
asteroid
List of planetary flybys
planet
natural satellite
small Solar System body
Mars
Earth
List of Earth flybys
Mars flyby
International Cometary Explorer
nucleus
Comet Giacobini-Zinner
Apollo 13
Artemis 2

MarCO
InSight
Manned Spacecraft Center
Mars Excursion Module

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