Pathways in space
- Author
- [email protected]
- Published
- Wed 05 Apr 2006
- Episode Link
- http://download.esa.int/podcast/pathways_in_space.mp3
Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago.
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