[chupa-chups]

Nice article. For even more information regarding gravity assists (and related effects like the Oberth effect) I found these articles in my comfort zone between too much detail and too superficial:

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/1.2341882 - sorry, just learnt this is not an open access article

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/1.5126818 (Oberth Effect)

[TeMPOraL]

> sorry, just learnt this is not an open access article

There is no such thing as "not open access article".

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2341882

(With a big thank you to Alexandra Elbakyan.)

[codeduck]

Love the reference to Kerbal space program as orbital mechanics software :)