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Slingshotting Around the Sun Would Make a Spacecraft the Faster Ever


NASA is very interested in developing a propulsion method to allow spacecraft to go faster. We've reported several times on different ideas to support that goal, and most of the more successful have utilized the Sun's gravity well, typically by slingshotting around it, as is commonly done with Jupiter currently.

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