How Gravity Assists Work in 60 Seconds

How gravity assists work. Voyager 1 used gravity assists to accelerate to about 17 kilometers per second, but how do gravity assists work? In this video, I will be explaining the orbital mechanics behind a gravity assist without going into math or fancy terminology. Even your dog will be able to understand gravity assists after watching this video!

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[fdsfds]

I have decent understanding of gravity and orbital mechanics but I always wondered about this and how gravity assists could possibly net any speed. Because I learned something here I'm liking and subscribing

[eonreeves]

Technically, by doing this you rob some of the kinetic energy from the planet.

[Lawyer--hire]

I swear sometimes I learn more stuff on YouTube than in school

[dearGOD]

Straight to the point, informative and easy to understand. Thank you.

[nosmirck]

best explanation to gravity assists I've ever seen!

[SK-cbwz]

I have that question exactly for many years

[wiwbiz]

I searched about this explanation since I saw that movie "Martian". So the real deal here is the motion of planet itself..

[Prometheus]

This is a very good explanation of a gravity assist and I’ve taken orbital mechanics in university

[jansi]

Vielen Dank, super kurze und klare Erklärung!

[Syntex]

This finally explained to me how you decelerate with a gravity assist. You come at the planet so that your exit trajectory is heading in the opposite direction of the planets’.

[alexmcnamara]

Amazing perfectly made and perfectly said! Thank you

[Oreo-cgod]

That's the same as the spaceflight simulator but asteroid had weak gravity because they're are small.

[dennisenright]

A nicely concise answer to something I had always wondered about. I could see how the planets' gravity would not decelerate the spacecraft after the flyby without an orbital burn at the bottom of the planets gravity well.
Liking and subscribing

[EvilDudeLOL]

YouTube is trolling this man with the views

[nytrocide]

that is a very sexy way to demonstrate vector addition

[AnApePlaysMinecraft]

Now I can play Orbit even better that I could before!

[pinkraven]

Today: Earth cries because we use too much natural resources!

2300: Jupiter cries because we rob too much energy from gravity assists

[Kingsley_Shat]

'Yeah I remember this one. Where the coyote sat down in a slingshot and strapped himself to an Acme rocket. Is that what we're doing here?'

[rblxtutorials]

Thank you! I’m making a space related game and i’m making gravity assists

[rhino]

OMG. thank you. that has really been bugging me for a while.