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Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane?

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On 7/13/2017 4:22 PM, Serg io wrote:
> On 7/13/2017 4:15 PM, F. Russell wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:32:16 -0700, Mahipal wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No. There are GEO, LEO, ..., and polar orbits for spacecraft. Remember
>>> the Irridium project of providing communications all the Earth over?
>>
>> I'm not referring to earth orbiting spacecraft.  I am interested in
>> interplanetary spacecraft that travel well beyond the vicinity of
>> the earth.
>>
>> AFAIK, there are no such spacecraft in orbits perpendicular to the
>> ecliptic plane.  Even the Pioneer and Voyager missions, both of which
>> are now far beyond the orbit of Pluto, are approximately within the
>> ecliptic plane.
>>
> 
> not true, they can slingshot up/down using another planets gravity
> I think they did that 20 years ago.
> 

lots of transfer of orbit stuff here;

http://ccar.colorado.edu/asen5050/projects/projects_2012/reid/


Ulysses was one

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Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-07-13 18:45 +0000
  Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2017-07-13 21:18 +0200
  Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2017-07-13 13:32 -0700
    Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-07-13 21:15 +0000
      Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Serg io <invaalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-13 16:22 -0500
        Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Serg io <invaalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-13 16:33 -0500
          Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-07-14 00:14 +0000
            Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Serg io <invaalid@invalid.com> - 2017-07-13 19:46 -0500
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              Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-07-14 23:14 +0000
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                Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2017-07-15 16:14 +0200
      Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2017-07-13 19:26 -0700
        Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2017-07-14 09:11 +0000
          Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 04:09 -0700
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            Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? fr314159@gmail.com - 2017-07-14 07:30 -0700
              Re: Are Space Flights Always Limited to the Solar System Plane? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 08:05 -0700
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