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Gravity assist
- ColinWright 14y agoWhat most people don't realize is that you can perform a slingshot around a Lagrange point. Stable Lagrange points act like objects, and you slingshot around them. Unstable Lagrange points act like negative mass objects and you slingshot "off" them. Very cool. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_transport_network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_transport_networ...