A change in the flight path of a spacecraft using the gravitational pull of a celestial body.
（航天飞船的）绕行星变轨。比较SLINGSHOT
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A swingby is efficient and cost-effective.
Of course, nothing eventful happened with our Earth swingby.
This will be the first time lunar swingbys have been used to manipulate orbits of more than one spacecraft.
The current controversy concerning Cassini's upcoming Earth swingby centers on the risk of the spacecraft accidentally re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Definition of swingby in US English:
swingby
nounˈswiNGˌbī
A change in the flight path of a spacecraft using the gravitational pull of a celestial body.
（航天飞船的）绕行星变轨。比较SLINGSHOT
Compare with slingshot
Example sentencesExamples
This will be the first time lunar swingbys have been used to manipulate orbits of more than one spacecraft.
Of course, nothing eventful happened with our Earth swingby.
A swingby is efficient and cost-effective.
The current controversy concerning Cassini's upcoming Earth swingby centers on the risk of the spacecraft accidentally re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.