Hermes Leaving Earth

Hermes has left the Earth-Moon Lagrange point 1 and is departing from Earth's gravity field. The inital maneuver was performed in axial thrust mode without rotation. But now in solar orbit the spacecraft and the thrusters are re-oriented and the vehicle is spinning-up to provide artificial gravity. 

The ion engines will keep operating nearly continously during the flight. In the first half of they thrust outwards, away from the sun. This is reversed during the second half of the flight.