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Rocket Lab — Our spacecraft just made interplanetary history - twice. Blue & Gold flawlessly executed powered Earth gravity assists, two days apart, to slingshot our planet and shoot for Mars’ orbit. This is the first time the highly complex maneuver has been executed successfully by spacecraft.


Our spacecraft just made interplanetary history - twice. Blue & Gold flawlessly executed powered Earth gravity assists, two days apart, to slingshot our planet and shoot for Mars' orbit. This is the first time the highly complex maneuver has been executed successfully by spacecraft. ESCAPADE has…

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