Synonyms for flyby
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1. flybynoun

   Synonyms:
   flyover, flypast

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1. Dick Stich:

   When we do our Missing Man flyby’s at the National Cemetery, everybody comes apart, it is so dramatic. You just wouldn’t believe the impact it has on the family and the friends that are there.

2. Alan Stern:

   MU69 is Ultima Thule, our spacecraft is heading beyond the limits of the known worlds, to what will be this mission's next achievement. Since this will be the farthest exploration of any object in space in history, I like to call our flyby target Ultima, for short, symbolizing this ultimate exploration by NASA and our team.

3. Paul Chodas:

   The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern.

4. John Bordi:

   The relative velocity between spacecraft and moon will be 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second), so we are screaming by pretty fast, all steps have to go like clockwork to successfully acquire our planned data, because soon after the flyby is complete, the spacecraft needs to be reoriented for our upcoming close approach of Jupiter, which happens only 7 ½ hours later.

5. Johannes Benkhoff:

   We're really looking forward to seeing the first results from measurements taken so close to Mercury's surface, when I started working as project scientist on BepiColombo in January 2008, NASA's Messenger mission had its first flyby at Mercury. Now it's our turn. It's a fantastic feeling !