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fromArs Technica
1 day ago

Here's how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA's next Mars mission

ESCAPADE will launch two spacecraft aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn and enter an Earth loiter orbit to wait for Mars alignment in November next year.
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest ones

All 10 of the rocket's test flights so far have launched from Texas toward splashdowns in the Indian or Pacific Oceans. On these trajectories, the rocket never completes a full orbit around the Earth, but instead flies an arcing path through space before gravity pulls it back into the atmosphere. If Starship's next two test flights go well, SpaceX will likely attempt to send the soon-to-debut third-generation version of the rocket all the way to low-Earth orbit.
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