Swing-by
Japan's first Mars probe, Nozomi, has used the moon for the first of a series of gravity-assist swing-bys, as part of its flight campaign en route to the Red Planet. A second moon swing-by will be performed in December and another will be made in October 1999, using the earth ...
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