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Mark Adler
Mark Adler
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If you only count planets, then I believe it's MESSENGER at six.

Though your question was explicitly: "Which probe that we have launched has received the most gravitational assists?" The winner there is Cassini, hands down. It is on Titan flyby number 9393 125, so far. And it's flown by other moons of Saturn. Plus the four planetary flybys on the way to Saturn.

If you only count planets, then I believe it's MESSENGER at six.

Though your question was explicitly: "Which probe that we have launched has received the most gravitational assists?" The winner there is Cassini, hands down. It is on Titan flyby number 93, so far. And it's flown by other moons of Saturn. Plus the four planetary flybys on the way to Saturn.

If you only count planets, then I believe it's MESSENGER at six.

Though your question was explicitly: "Which probe that we have launched has received the most gravitational assists?" The winner there is Cassini, hands down. It is on Titan flyby number 93 125, so far. And it's flown by other moons of Saturn. Plus the four planetary flybys on the way to Saturn.

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Mark Adler
Mark Adler
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If you only count planets, then I believe it's MESSENGER at six.

Though your question was explicitly: "Which probe that we have launched has received the most gravitational assists?" The winner there is Cassini, hands down. It is on Titan flyby number 93, so far. And it's flown by other moons of Saturn. Plus the four planetary flybys on the way to Saturn.