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T+215: CAPSTONE, with Brad Cheetham, CEO of Advanced Space

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Is It Akin to an Interplanetary Launch?

We're going about over a million kilometers from the earth, so p be prtty, pretty far out. And kind of the wa to think about it is that when we're out r at that distance, the sun's gravity is actually changing our orbit parometers. It takes a litte longer, but we use the sort of gravitational benefits of the sun to change the orbit instead of using fuel. We can actually use that technology to come back to earth orbits as well, which is a technology we've evaluated. But yes, imen, it's a scalikn a really interesting way. So i gess, as more missions are going to be flying out there, we see

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