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n. the use of the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other celestial body to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft.
Usage examples of "slingshot effect".
They got there with more than two hours to spare, before the Slingshot Effect took hold.
As it seemed he must be hurled backwards out of the ring, Zayn found purchase with his stronger leg and checked the slingshot effect.
The rev had used the slingshot effect-to accelerate translation torps even faster than normal and to change his course back toward sector green without killing his speed.
By taking advantage of the slingshot effect, we actually save a bit on energy over the alternative of leaving directly from Io, and we get some super close-ups of Jupiter.
Curving the front edges of his wings into his body, he turned his downward velocity upward, a slingshot effect of his own.
The original Enterprise NCC-1701 did its share of time traveling, being the first to develop the slingshot effect.
They just came in at full speed in a single pass, allowing the planets gravity wells to whip them around in the classic slingshot effect, and simply dumped their FRAMs before pulling up and swerving away.
They just came in at full speed in a single pass, allowing the planets' gravity wells to whip them around in the classic slingshot effect, and simply dumped their FRAMs before pulling up and swerving away.
The way that the Black Mass is able to move at faster-than-light, as an entity, is that they essentially surf the event horizon of the pulsar and, using a modified version of the slingshot effect first pioneered by the starship Enterprise, move off at warp speeds.
The ship will loop around the star, using its gravity for a slingshot effect.
This second option is attractive, since we can then take payloads even higher if we want to, and use the slingshot effect to launch them for destinations around the solar system.
Sending squadrons of warbirds back through time using the slingshot effect had been a promising gambit.