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That'd be really cool! And definitely helped by the fact that you'd only need to head out at a fraction of Voyagers speeds to get the benefit.

There's some details on the Voyager gravity-assist mechanics here [0], but you'd also need the escape trajectory to be pointed in the Voyager direction which would further constrain...

That said, Earth-Jupiter-Saturn alignments don't seem that rare (on a decades scale).

[0] http://www.gravityassist.com/IAF3-2/Ref.%203-143.pdf



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