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After launch comes spacecraft commissioning 🛰️🛰️ Our operators have spent recent days stabilizing spacecraft attitudes, deploying solar arrays, checking guidance and navigation systems, and powering up all flight computers and antennas on Blue and Gold as they begin their journey to Mars for the ESCAPADE mission. Take a look...

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