The NASA Escapade mission will launch to Mars, with an expected travel time of two years.
ESCAPADE is the fifth mission under the SIMPLEx program, following four previous missions that did not succeed.
ESCAPADE is a flagship initiative in NASA's SIMPLEx program, funded by the Heliophysics Division.
Contact has been successfully established with both ESCAPADE spacecraft, Blue and Gold.
The New Glenn rocket's second mission, designated NG-2, carried NASA's Mars explorer ESCAPADE.
The mission development for ESCAPADE involved collaboration between UC Berkeley and the commercial space industry.
The two ESCAPADE spacecraft, named Blue and Gold, will spend 11 months in Mars orbit to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment.
The ESCAPADE mission is en route to Mars.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launched for the second time on October 20, 2023, carrying NASA's ESCAPADE mission.
ESCAPADE is managed by the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Services Program under the VADR contract.
The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
ESCAPADE is expected to arrive in Mars orbit in September 2027 and operate for approximately 11 months.
The New Glenn mission launched NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission.
Blue Origin's second flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) was scrubbed due to extreme solar storms.
NASA confirmed the separation of ESCAPADE Observatory-2.
NASA postponed the launch of the New Glenn rocket due to highly elevated solar activity affecting the ESCAPADE spacecraft.
The second launch of New Glenn, referred to as NG-2, is set to launch NASA's Mars probe ESCAPADE.
The EscaPADE mission successfully deployed its spacecraft.
Key partners in the ESCAPADE mission include Rocket Lab, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin.
The twin orbiters of the EscaPADE mission will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars.