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Another fun one is the long term orbits of expended Apollo hardware. The below article shows the booster entering by way of L1 into something like a Molniya orb
by adolph 3y ago
Another fun one is the long term orbits of expended Apollo hardware. The below article shows the booster entering by way of L1 into something like a Molniya orbit until leaving again.
Yeung’s discovery, formally named J002E3, became the focus of an intense analysis with a unique result. The object was not an asteroid captured by Earth in a cosmic game of coincidence. This was a relic of humanity’s space race: an Apollo-era rocket that had been placed in orbit around the Sun — and then returned to Earth.
https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/how-a-long-gone-apollo-rocket-returned-to-earth/ https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/how-a-long-gone-...