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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @05:04AM (#40688477)
Voyager 1 only gravity boosted at Jupiter and Saturn. That's not a particularly special alignment. Doing the same thing doesn't need a "grand tour" alignment, which happens every almost-two hundred years by the way.

Also it got most of its speed from Jupiter, and we can do a gravity assist with Jupiter any year.

And check out this plan for a double Jupiter gravity assist. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2020/eposter/1110.pdf

Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by Covzire on Saturday June 15, 2024 @12:41PM (#40690835)
Is the assist multiplicative or additive?
Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @04:07PM (#40692360)
Additive.