flyby in English

noun
1
a flight past a point, especially the close approach of a spacecraft to a planet or moon for observation.
noun
verb
    zip by

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1. That helicopter made a flyby for a reason.

2. View of the moon, taken during Cassini's September 2005 flyby.

3. What good is a flyby if you can't get Watney off the surface?

4. 3 But to astronomers, the close flyby of Icarus was nothing new.

5. The third phase is visitation by space probes, by either orbiting or flyby.

6. Flyby anomaly: Various spacecraft have experienced greater acceleration than expected during gravity assist maneuvers.

7. Early flyby probes (Mariner 4) and later orbiters used radio occultation to perform aeronomy.

8. Cassini captured this close view of Saturn's moon Pandora during the spacecraft's flyby on June 3, 2010.

9. The Galileo flyby of Ida found that some S-types, particularly the Koronis family, could be the source of these meteorites.

10. Pioneer 11 made the first flyby of Saturn in September 1979, when it passed within 20,000 km of the planet's cloud tops.

11. Ever since the July flyby, Stern's face has been locked in a wide grin, and his mouth has been spewing data-backed Pluto Boosterisms

12. Mission planners delayed the decision to attempt a flyby until they were certain that this would leave the spacecraft enough propellant to complete its Jupiter mission.

13. OSIRIS-REx - Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Bennu (2016) Hayabusa2 - JAXA Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Ryugu (2014) PROCYON - JAXA Small Satellite Asteroid Flyby Mission (2014) Dawn - NASA Orbiter of Asteroids Ceres and Vesta (2007) Rosetta - ESA Comet Mission, flew by Asteroids Steins