ESCAPADE

Caroline Reid is responsible for each bus for NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission.

Rocket Lab won a contract from the University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory in June to develop a new EscaPADE design based on Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus.

The University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory leads ESCAPADE with spacecraft provided by Rocket Lab.

The operation of ESCAPADE will be managed by the Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

ESCAPADE satellites will be operated from UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory's mission operations center in the hills above the Berkeley campus.

As of April 14, 2023, a forum calculation by TrevorMonty estimated the ESCAPADE satellites have about 3.0–3.2 km/s of onboard delta-V.

As of April 11, 2023, Rob Lillis stated the ESCAPADE launch window was August 6 through August 15, 2024.

The New Glenn orbital launch vehicle successfully completed its second mission by deploying NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) twin-spacecraft.

Rocket Lab’s release states the EscaPADE spacecraft will launch on a NASA-provided commercial launch vehicle in 2024.

NASA approved a revised EscaPADE plan in 2021 that uses Rocket Lab Photon spacecraft buses with greater propulsion capabilities than the original design.

Rocket Lab is supplying Photon spacecraft buses for the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft and committed to adhere to the mission’s $55,000,000 cost cap.

ESCAPADE is a NASA-funded smallsat mission to Mars with a cost cap of $55,000,000 and is scheduled to launch in 2024.

Rocket Lab selected Photon as an interplanetary spacecraft platform for multiple missions, including the ESCAPADE mission to Mars in 2024 and a private mission to Venus.

EscaPADE revised its mission design to use spacecraft buses from Rocket Lab and is slated for launch in 2024.

NASA selected Blue Origin on 2023-02-09 to launch the agency’s two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft to Mars in 2024.

NASA selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn to launch the two ESCAPADE spacecraft on 2024-02-09.

NASA’s Launch Services Program awarded Blue Origin’s New Glenn the ESCAPADE launch contract on 2023-02-09.

NASA removed ESCAPADE from the Psyche launch in 2020 after a trajectory change linked to Psyche’s switch from Falcon 9 to Falcon Heavy prevented ESCAPADE from achieving Mars orbit as originally designed.

NASA selected ESCAPADE in 2019 as one of three missions in the Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, cost-capped at $55,000,000 each.

The Blue Origin award for launching ESCAPADE is listed in a government procurement database with a value of $20,000,000 and $6,000,000 obligated to date as of 2023-02-10.