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Weather Looks Great for Today’s Launch

Blue Origin rocket carrying NASA's ESCAPADE is vertical on the launch pad.
NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft sit atop Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ahead of launch from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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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 will reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time. 

The twin-spacecraft of ESCAPADE will analyze how Mars’ magnetic field guides particle flows around the planet, how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through the magnetosphere, and what processes control the flow of energy and matter into and out of the Martian atmosphere. 

The ESCAPADE mission is managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with key partners Rocket Lab, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, Advanced Space LLC, and Blue Origin. 

Continue checking NASA’s ESCAPADE blog for mission updates.  

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