#flyby
Success! On Monday, the #JUICE mission successfully completed a flyby of #Earth. This was a gravity assist, designed to increase the spacecraft’s speed and alter its trajectory as it makes a winding trip to #Jupiter. It will arrive in 2031. 🛰️🌎
More pics: buff.ly/uBlk87h

📸 ESA/ JUICE/ NavCam.
September 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
NASA's MESSENGER Satellite Captures Spectacular Color Mosaic of Mercury - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/9uD599
September 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM
☄️ Asteroid Flyby (2026-09-30) (2018 SP2) Diameter: ~29–65 m Speed: 51 337 km/h Distance: 1 927 097 km
September 30, 2026 at 8:30 AM
「久々にvoyagerとflyby繋げたやつ聞くかー」と思ってYouTube開いたら
去年公式でまさかの披露があったことを知って椅子から転げ落ちた
September 30, 2026 at 8:01 AM
One year ago. Deep Space Station 15, one of the 34-meter antennas at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. It was first built to support Voyager 2's Uranus flyby.

The rain stopped just long enough reveal the antenna and the setting Moon

www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/
September 30, 2026 at 4:47 AM
#Carrier 🚨!

Wrist shot from the point. #Texier trying to do a flyby, but is late. #Bobrovsky just picked it up late.

#GoHabsGo 3-1 #LeafsForever
September 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
A terrible and uncharacteristic flyby by Suzuki at his own blue line set it up...
September 29, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Who heard the whisper? TinyGS — a crowdsourced net of hobbyists with $30 receivers and small antennas on their balconies. Amateurs on multiple continents caught the packets live and decoded them in near real-time. A planetary flyby architecture, received by volunteers.
September 29, 2026 at 10:17 PM
It's only been visited by a probe once, and that was a flyby. Since flybys are just snapshots, they give waaaay less info than orbiters. And Uranus compounded the problem: it spins on its side, and its pole was pointed at the sun. That means half of it was in darkness the entire time, and the same
September 29, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Did more radar work! In this flyby, the other ship has its radar on, so we get big signals from each other. At the end of the clip, the ship is being masked out a little bit by the big asteroid. I added 3 'radar cross section' curves to objects, so maybe stealth ships in future? #gamedev #UE5
September 29, 2026 at 9:01 PM
In case you missed the flyby yesterday (bsky.app/profile/esa....) ...
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

xkcd.com/3304/
September 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Perhaps it should be said that flybys serve the purpose of getting speed. But I didn't see the Venus flyby.
September 29, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Earth provided gravity assistance to slingshot the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft toward the Jupiter system. The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instrument is one of 10 instruments aboard Juice.
https://ow.ly/H4MT50ZSIMa
Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter using very little fuel.
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September 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Imágenes de la sonda Cassini

Rhea Western Wisps

Icy fractures on Saturn moon Rhea reflect sunlight brightly in this high-resolution mosaic created from images captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft during its March 2, 2010, flyby.

#cassini #space #nasa
September 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
recently i started a new ksp science mode playthrough with Principia (n-body physics mod) and Sol (irl solar system mod) and its been a very fun and different experience
September 29, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Do it! I have been rewarded for my goth garden by a visit from a crow (who brought me chillis) and a bat flyby
September 29, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Seriously, a single flyby? We're not even sure if it's really an ice giant? Let's put the ketamine down, stop masturbating about Martian cities, and get on this. Orbit the thing. Study its moons and magnetic fields in detail. Send probes into its atmosphere. C'mon already.
September 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I bet its about a Trump-ordered flyby
September 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I was in LA during the 1992 LA riots and aftermath. There is nothing more disconcerting than sitting in a college classroom, while military helicopters fly by at a low altitude.
Black Hawk UH-60 Helicopter Flyby
ALT: Black Hawk UH-60 Helicopter Flyby
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September 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
La missió Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) de l'Agència Espacial Europea va fregar ahir el límit més extern de l'atmosfera terrestre, aprofitant la gravetat del nostre planeta per modificar la seva trajectòria cap a Júpiter amb un consum de combustible mínim.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter usi...
www.esa.int
September 29, 2026 at 3:30 PM
European Space Agency: Successful Earth Flyby Improves Juice’s Course to Jupiter www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter usi...
www.esa.int
September 29, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Als Nächstes steht 2029 ein weiterer Vorbeiflug an der Erde an, bevor es 2031 zum Jupiter geht.

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter usi...
www.esa.int
September 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
La sonda #Juice dell’@esa.int ha raggiunto il massimo avvicinamento alla Terra alle 13:45 ora italiana di ieri, lunedì 28 settembre, completando con successo il secondo sorvolo del nostro pianeta. Durante il passaggio ha potuto mettere alla prova tutti gli strumenti scientifici.
Juice, eseguito con successo il flyby della Terra
Il secondo sorvolo della Terra della missione Juice si è concluso in modo nominale. La sonda ha raggiunto il massimo avvicinamento alle 13:45 ora italiana di ieri, lunedì 28 settembre, e durante il pa...
www.media.inaf.it
September 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM