Interplanetary spaceflight

Interplanetary spaceflight is when a spacecraft goes between planets.

Interplanetary Spaceflight Media

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  Map of all active and planned Solar System missions and their destinations as of November 2024

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  Timelapse of Voyager 2 approaching Jupiter.

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  The plains of Pluto, as seen by New Horizons after its nearly 10-year voyage

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  WISPR of the Parker Solar Probe took this visible light footage of the nightside of Venus in 2021, showing the hot faintly glowing surface, and its Aphrodite Terra as large dark patch, through the clouds, which prohibit such observations on the dayside when they are illuminated. Possibly representing the illusive ashen light.

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  Launch concept of an interplanetary Mars sample-return mission.

• View of Earth from MESSENGER as it performs a flyby to reach Mercury via gravity assist.

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  Hohmann Transfer Orbit: a spaceship leaves from point 2 in Earth's orbit and arrives at point 3 in Mars' (not to scale).

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  Plot of Voyager 2's heliocentric velocity against its distance from the Sun, illustrating the use of gravity assist to accelerate the spacecraft by Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. To observe Triton, Voyager 2 passed over Neptune's north pole resulting in an acceleration out of the plane of the ecliptic and reduced velocity away from the Sun.

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  Artist's rendition of an Apollo Command Module aerobraking