University of California Berkeley

The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

The EscaPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

The launch of the two ESCAPADE spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley is scheduled to occur in one hour.

Rob Lillis is the Principal Investigator for the ESCAPADE mission and is associated with the Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

The UC Berkeley instruments on the ESCAPADE spacecraft include electrostatic analyzers to measure escaping ions and electrons from Mars.

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

UC Berkeley has been involved in Mars missions for nearly 60 years, building instruments for important missions like NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and ongoing missions such as MAVEN and the Emirates Mars Mission Hope probe.

The science instruments, deployable booms, and data processing computers for ESCAPADE were built by UC Berkeley and its partners.

The satellite pair for the ESCAPADE mission will arrive at Mars in 2027 and have been nicknamed Blue and Gold in honor of UC Berkeley's school colors.

The two spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley's ESCAPADE mission have been successfully encapsulated into the rocket fairing.

Caroline Reid pursued astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rocket Lab built the two ESCAPADE spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley.

The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is implementing the Carruthers mission and designed and built the two ultraviolet sensors.

The University of California, Berkeley is involved with the ESCAPADE project.

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

The ESCAPADE mission is in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory.

The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley leads the mission implementation and payload design.

The ESCAPADE mission is conducted in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory.

Rob Lillis is the ESCAPADE Principal Investigator and Associate Director for Planetary Science at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.