How Inversion and NASA Plan to Unlock Interplanetary Aerocapture MB edits

Using a planets atmosphere to secure a satellites place in orbit, a process known as aerocapture, has been the dream of flight engineers for decades. The only problem? Its really hard to actually do. It requires control systems, thermal management, and orbital mechanics to all coordinate in a dance that allows a spacecraft to not just slow down while passing by another planet (or moon in some cases) but to start to orbit it without the use of lots of additional propellant. For now, that remains ...