• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Actually, it reached solar escape velocity, probably on it’s Jupiter flyby. Here is Vgr2’s velocity chart, 1 probably did pretty much the same

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      4 months ago

      Huh, there’s a small but steady velocity falloff, is that from the microgravity from being so far from any large celestial bodies?

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        4 months ago

        That’ll still be Sun’s gravity, it exists but it’s not enough to recapture the probe