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Our #AnotherOneLeavesTheCrust mission might have seemed straightforward, but the Kick Stage actually pulled some complex orbital maneuvers and performed the longest Curie engine burn to date. Learn more: bit.ly/3qUKkil 
After separating from Electron, the Kick Stage’s Curie engine performed 2 separate burns - one to raise @OHB_SE’s satellite to a 1,200 km circular orbit, and a 2nd burn to lower the Kick Stage’s perigee after payload deployment, speeding up the Kick Stage’s de-orbit process.
Across the two maneuvers, Curie completed more than 267 seconds of total burn time (more than twice a standard mission!) and delivered more than 1,700 km of perigee change, ascending 982 km and descending 740 km.
