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Launch Date
1/1/2024
Launch Site
CC LC36
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Launch Vehicle
New Glenn 7x2 1 (NewGlenn Family)
EscaPADE redesigned its mission to use Photon satellite buses from Rocket Lab and could launch as soon as 2024.
Blue Origin holds a NASA award dated 2023-02-09, to launch the ESCAPADE Mars smallsat mission on New Glenn, scheduled for late 2024.
Blue Origin aims for a 2024 first launch of its New Glenn rocket, which is contracted to launch NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars.
The two ESCAPADE spacecraft are planned for launch in 2024 to low Earth orbit aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn launch vehicle provided by NASA.
NASA selected Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket to launch ESCAPADE and awarded Blue Origin a $20,000,000 task order through the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare contract in February 2023 for the mission.
NASA awarded a task order in February 2023 valued at $20,000,000 to procure the launch of the ESCAPADE spacecraft on New Glenn.
Two spacecraft for the ESCAPADE mission were manufactured by Rocket Lab.
ESCAPADE is designed and manufactured by Rocket Lab based on its Photon satellite bus.