A common way a robotic spacecraft can be accelerated and have its trajectory changed without the use of any fuel is via

A) a gravitational slingshot from another spacecraft
B) radiation pressure from the Sun
C) the ejection of mass from the probe
D) a gravitational slingshot from another planet


D

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