On Jan. 6, the mission operations team for NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) successfully completed the second trajectory correction maneuver for one of the two spacecraft, after delaying the attempt in December 2025. The other spacecraft completed its first two maneuvers in December as originally planned. This maneuver sets up the […]
During trajectory correction maneuvers for NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft on Dec. 8 and Dec. 12, the mission operations team noticed low thrust during the burn for one of the spacecraft. The team is working to identify the cause and will attempt a trajectory correction maneuver in the coming weeks. The other spacecraft has successfully completed […]
About a week after its launch, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission has already captured its first images: a pair of self-portraits showing part of the spacecraft as the twin explorers speed away from Earth. On Nov. 21, one of the two ESCAPADE spacecraft used its Visible and Infrared Observation System […]
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) twin spacecraft have deployed from the Blue Origin New Glenn second stage. The spacecraft will go into a kidney bean-shaped Earth-proximity phase lasting roughly a year, before initiating a trans-Mars Injection engine burn sometime in November 2026. The speed gained ahead of the burn will allow […]
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) twin spacecraft have begun the journey to Mars, lifting off aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 3:55 p.m. EST. In the next few minutes, the rocket will undergo a series of […]
Blue Origin reset the countdown clock with a new liftoff time of 3:55 p.m. EST. We are now in terminal count.
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 lift rocket is set to lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space […]
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 spacecraft to mid Earth orbit on their journey to Mars.
Watch Blue Origin’s broadcast here.
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 twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around the Red Planet. The observations […]
