Meaning of "past"

Context: a flight past a point, especially the close approach of a spacecraft to a planet or moon for observation.

Could you paraphrase it for me, please?

past is a preposition here.

eg I walked past the bank yesterday.

eg The spacecraft flew past Jupiter. (The slang term for this sis The spacecraft did a fly-past of Jupiter.)

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Clive

Any movement past a point is a movement beyond that point, a movement to a place farther than that point.

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