NASA calls this a gravity assist, and exploits it to save fuel in missions to outer planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.

美国航空航天局称这是一个重力辅助，并利用它来节省执行去木星和土星等外行星的任务时消耗的燃料。

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The MESSENGER spacecraft is zeroing in on Venus for the most significant gravity assist maneuver of its long journey to Mercury.

为此次“信使”号在前往水星的长途旅程中最重要的引力机动，飞船正在对金星进行校正。

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Taking the design of Venus gravity-assist trajectories as an example, the relation between orbital eccentricity and orbital inclination was analyzed.

以金星借力轨道设计为例，分析了轨道偏心率与轨道倾角增量之间的关系。

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The gravity assist would allow a safe return to Earth even if the spacecraft's main rocket engine failed, Professor Longuski said.

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If that happened, the Martian gravity would change the spacecraft's trajectory, hurling it toward Venus, where another gravity assist would return the spacecraft back to Earth.

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