New Mission Will Explore Bizarre Gravitational Anomaly Around Earth

When spacecraft careen around Earth for a gravity boost, they mysteriously speed up, and physicists want to know why.

Rebecca Boyle
By Rebecca Boyle
November 2, 2012

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