It’s seems so impossibly hard to me, given that at those distances being just a single degree too far to the left etc. would result in missing a distant planet completely.
In: Planetary Science
Lots smart people doing some pretty hard math and the space probes have a little fuel reserved for corrections for unforeseen effects that happen allong the way. Though those corrections realy have to be small if they make a big error in the calculations the space probe is just “lost”. They wont lose connection but they wont get to their target.
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