How do long range space probes like Voyager 1 anticipate traveling through space for hundreds or thousands of years without hitting something, getting pulled into something’s gravity and crashing, etc?
In: Planetary Science
Space is like. REALLLY big. It’s the biggest. There isn’t anything to hit where they send the probe, and the pull of gravity is accounted for.
They aimed it specifically at a tiny spot near a planet to fling it way out though. Using a LOT of math somebody did probably by hand.
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