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Kosmoseteaduse ja -tehnoloogia terminibaas

ID 576068 Last modified 07.01.2026
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Domain space travel
  • lähenemine ja möödumine teatud objektist, nt planeedist
  • passage of a spacecraft near a planet, a moon or an asteroid to obtain scientific data
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    • See also: aerobraking (related) [ IATE:1566914] gravity assist (related) [IATE:1475427 ]
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fly-by
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  • Eight months after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft’s historic fly-by of Pluto, the tiny world and its moons are still offering up surprises. A series of startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites – and the space environment that surrounds them – have been revealed by a new series of papers.

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