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Swing Around Trajectory
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A planetary round trip trajectory
which requires no propulsion at the destination planet, but uses the planet's
gravitational
field to effect the necessary orbit change to return to earth.
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References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
