ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Is Skimming Earth for a Gravity Assist – And It’s One of the Riskiest Planetary Flybys Ever – SciTechDaily

ByEuropean Space AgencyNovember 27, 2021
Artist’s impression of Solar Orbiter making a flyby at Earth. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
The chance that ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low….

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