00:00NASA's twin Escapade spacecraft are about to try something no agency spacecraft has done.
00:05Each will perform a powered flyby of Earth to slingshot toward Mars.
00:09That means combining Earth's gravity with an engine burn at closest approach.
00:14The first flyby is set for November 7th, and the second for November 9th.
00:19Each engine burn lasts about nine minutes.
00:21It boosts each spacecraft by more than 1,000 miles per hour to about 6.7 miles per second.
00:27Escapade launched in November 2025, when Earth and Mars were on opposite sides of the Sun.
00:34So the pair looped around a point in space before heading back toward Earth.
00:38They arrive at Mars in September 2027.
00:41There, they'll become the first multi-spacepraft mission to fly in formation around Mars.
00:46Their job is to study how the solar wind strips away Mars' atmosphere.
00:50A new route to Mars flown twice.
00:53Disclosure, this video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using AI-assisted tools.
Comments