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flyby

/flahy-bahy/US // ˈflaɪˌbaɪ //UK // (ˈflaɪˌbaɪ) //

飞越,飞翔,飞跃,飞来横祸

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fly·bys.

    • : the flight of a spacecraft close enough to a celestial object, as a planet, to gather scientific data.
    • : Aeronautics. Also called flypast. a low-altitude flight of an aircraft for the benefit of ground observers.flyover.

Examples

  • There has been talk in the last couple of months that some at NASA are seeking a mission extension to September 2025, so that Juno can do flybys of some of Jupiter’s moons and study them up close.

  • The Soviets were pursuing an ambitious flight schedule in an attempt to keep up with their American counterparts, designing spacecraft and rocketry for lunar landings, lunar flybys and earth orbiting.

  • It’s for a lunar flyby mission that NASA has planned for 2022.

  • The flyby is meant to use Venus’s gravity as a speed-reducing force to adjust the trajectory of the spacecraft on to its eventual destination.

  • New Zealand–based Rocket Lab wants to launch a small satellite called Photon for a flyby of Venus as early as 2023.