Jupiter-bound JUICE probe slingshots by Earth on way to Venus (photos)

[Admin]

JUICE flew by Earth on Tuesday (Aug. 20), just a day after it zoomed past the moon. The spacecraft also snapped some images of home before heading off to Venus.

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[Icepilot]

What kind of "science journalist" says that a satellite performing a slingshot by Earth "hovered"?

 

[Classical Motion]

When you pull a slingshot back the pebble is in hover.

 

[billslugg]

What kind of "science journalist" says that a satellite performing a slingshot by Earth "hovered"?

The proper click bait term would be "zipped". "Hovered"? Too UFO.

 

[CMOSlabs]

Tracking

 

[Abe53]

How many years extra to save how little mass? Less than one human+support? Plenty useless humans in orbit even now. Humans in space have not accomplished a fraction of what unmanned spacecraft did. Ground humans and send unmanned spacecraft with enough JUICE to get to their destinations quicker.