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NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers) mission to Mars is just minutes away from launch, with its twin spacecraft perched on Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket inside the payload fairing. The second launch of Blue Origin’s heavy…
Live broadcast coverage has begun for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission. Blue Origin is targeting 2:57 p.m. EST for the second launch of its New Glenn rocket that will send ESCAPADE’s twin…
Weather officials with Blue Origin predict a 95% chance of favorable weather for today’s launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission. The ESCAPADE mission is the first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to Mars. Its…
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers) mission will study Mars’ real-time response to the solar wind, helping us better understand climate history of the Red Planet. The ESCAPADE mission is the first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to…
Launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission is scheduled for Thursday on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 2:57…
Launch day is here for NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission to Mars. Blue Origin is launching the ESCAPADE mission from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on the second flight of its…
NASA postponed the launch of its ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission on Nov. 12 due to highly elevated space weather activity that evolved into the most intense geomagnetic storm of 2025. The next launch attempt is…
by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert Einstein’s 1916 theory of General Relativity. These invisible ripples in space were first…
NASA and Blue Origin are reopening media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission. The twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will study the solar wind’s interaction with Mars, providing insight into the planet’s…
NASA integrated the Artemis II Orion stage adapter with the rest of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Wednesday in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Built by NASA engineers at the agency’s…
