NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft are prepared for a mission to Mars.
NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft are encapsulated in New Glenn's 7-meter fairing.
Together with their ESPA-ring, the 2 EscaPADE probes occupy about 1.5% of the available volume in New Glenn's payload fairing.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is expected to launch NASA's Mars orbiter ESCAPADE, targeting November 9 as the scheduled date.
Caroline Reid is responsible for each bus for NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission.
The ESCAPADE mission consists of a pair of spacecraft set to launch no earlier than this year.
ESCAPADE is expected to arrive at Mars approximately 11 months after launch and will perform a Mars Orbital Insertion burn.
New Glenn is scheduled to launch NASA's two Mars spacecraft, ESCAPADE, in late October or November.
ESCAPADE is manufactured by Rocket Lab, which is based in California.
The ESCAPADE satellites arrived at the Florida Space Coast on September 22.
New Glenn will place ESCAPADE into an orbit around Earth rather than transporting it to Mars.
The observational instruments onboard ESCAPADE weigh about 8 kg.
Propellant constitutes 70% of the weight of ESCAPADE.
ESCAPADE consists of two spacecraft named Blue and Gold.
ESCAPADE will use thrusters to travel to Mars after being launched into orbit.
The ESCAPADE spacecraft will study how solar wind and plasma interact with Mars’ magnetosphere.
Rocket Lab built the two ESCAPADE spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley.
The New Glenn booster is scheduled for a mission to launch NASA’s ESCAPADE in the coming weeks.
The NG-2 mission is scheduled to carry NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft.
The hotfire test is in preparation for the launch of NASA's EscaPADE mission.