Ben Brockert on Nostr: A question for the astrodynamicists: the Juice double flyby is certainly cool, but is ...

A question for the astrodynamicists: the Juice double flyby is certainly cool, but is it actually necessary? The slingshots are in opposite directions, so if the moon wasn’t in that spot couldn’t they have gotten the same effect by flying a bit farther from earth?

( crop from https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/07/Juice_s_lunar-Earth_flyby_step_II_Earth )