gravity assist

Summary

gravity assist ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,894 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• gravity assist is credited with the discovery of Friedrich Zander^[2].
• gravity assist's developer is recorded as Yuri Kondratyuk^[3].
• gravity assist's developer is recorded as Mstislav Keldysh^[4].
• gravity assist is a type of space maneuver^[5].
• gravity assist is a type of passive motion^[6].
• gravity assist is part of interplanetary spaceflight^[7].
• gravity assist is used for acceleration^[8].
• gravity assist is used for reduction^[9].
• gravity assist's Commons category is recorded as Gravitational slingshots^[10].
• gravity assist's time of earliest written record is recorded as 1925^[11].
• gravity assist's used by is recorded as Luna 3^[12].
• gravity assist's has characteristic is recorded as Tisserand's parameter^[13].
• gravity assist's different from is recorded as Oberth effect^[14].
• gravity assist's uses is recorded as momentum^[15].
• gravity assist's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[16].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include space maneuver^[5] and passive motion^[6].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include acceleration^[8] and reduction^[9]. gravity assist is part of interplanetary spaceflight^[7]. Its used by is recorded as Luna 3^[12].

Why It Matters

gravity assist ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,894 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[17] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[18]