Yet, as it departed our Solar System, it didn't follow the predicted hyperbolic path.

Over the next few months, its hyperbolic flight path will bring it to more favorable observing conditions.

Yet, as it departed our Solar System, it didn’t follow the predicted hyperbolic path.

Over the next few months, its hyperbolic flight path will bring it to more favorable observing conditions.

If properly navigated, the atmospheric drag will slow the craft down enough to turn its escape trajectory into an eccentric orbit.

The Star 48B third-stage is also on a hyperbolic Solar System escape trajectory, and reached Jupiter before the New Horizons spacecraft.

The Star 48B third stage is also on a hyperbolic Solar System escape trajectory, and reached Jupiter before the New Horizons spacecraft.

Some comets making their first visit to the inner Solar System from the *Oort Cloud may follow hyperbolic trajectories, never to return.

The spacecraft encountered the lunar surface with an incoming asymptotic direction at an angle of -5.6 degrees from the lunar equator.

Unusual, the orbit of the comet appeared to follow a so-called hyperbolic trajectory, which means it doesn't orbit the sun and probably originates from far beyond our solar system.

So far, however, the data suggests that its path is a hyperbola — meaning that it is dipping into the solar system before flying out again.

The spacecraft encountered the lunar surface in a direct hyperbolic trajectory, with incoming asymptotic direction at an angle of -13.6 degrees from the lunar equator.