The EscaPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Blue Origin launched its second flight of the New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) from Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS.
The New Glenn rocket has the task of sending NASA's ESCAPADE twin spacecraft to Mars to study the Red Planet's climate history.
The EscaPADE mission is a dual-spacecraft project with University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars.
NASA scrubbed the New Glenn NG-2 launch with EscaPADE due to an ongoing geomagnetic storm.
The EscaPADE mission will analyze how Mars’ magnetic field guides particle flows around the planet.
Two spacecraft for the ESCAPADE mission were manufactured by Rocket Lab.
New Glenn was set to launch NASA's Mars spacecraft ESCAPADE from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
ESCAPADE is NASA's first Mars mission in five years, which has been delayed since October 2024.
ESCAPADE is designed to study the relationship between solar wind, space weather, and the Martian atmosphere.
The two probes of the EscaPADE mission will loiter around the Sun-Earth L2 point for approximately one year after launch.
One plaque on each EscaPADE probe features Rocket Lab's motto 'Non Sufficit Hic Orbis' and images of an American Eagle and a New Zealand Kiwi.
New Glenn will carry NASA's twin probes for the Escapade mission to study Mars' magnetic environment.
The launch of the two ESCAPADE spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley is scheduled to occur in one hour.
Each EscaPADE probe carries two commemorative plaques.
NG-2 will carry NASA's EscaPADE Mars mission to study the magnetosphere.
The second plaque on each EscaPADE probe lists the names of team members in the respective color of the spacecraft, which are blue and gold.
The ESCAPADE mission will last for 2.5 years and aims to study how Mars lost its atmosphere.
The EscaPADE probes will operate in highly elliptical orbits at Mars.
The Escapade mission involves placing two identical probes in orbit around Mars to analyze the interaction between solar wind and the planet's magnetosphere.