EPISODE · Apr 5, 2006 · 3 MIN
Pathways in space
from ESApod, audio and video from space · host European Space Agency ESA
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. ESApod audio programme
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Navigating Venus Express through 400 mn kilometres of interplanetary space with help from Newton and Kepler
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Pathways in space
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