OSIRIS-REx outbound cruise and gravity assist
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  • 7 years ago
After a year orbiting the sun, OSIRIS-REx will make a flyby of Earth in September 2017. Earth's gravitational field will pull the spacecraft towards the planet where it can "borrow" a small amount of Earth's orbital energy.
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