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 the Red Planet. Its twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars, […]
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 p.m. EST. Here’s a look at some important launch milestones. All times are approximate: TIME […]
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 heavy lift rocket, New Glenn. The twin ESCAPADE spacecraft sit inside the payload fairing atop […]
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 today, beginning with a launch window that opens at 2:57 p.m. EST. Several eruptions on […]
NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft are back in Florida in preparation for launch this fall. The two spacecraft are destined to orbit Mars, where they will study the structure of the Martian magnetic field, how it interacts with space weather, and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. […]
NASA announced Friday it will not fuel the two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft at this time, foregoing the mission’s upcoming October launch window. While future launch opportunities are under review, the next possible earliest launch date is spring 2025.
NASA’s next science mission to Mars is targeted to launch no earlier than Sunday, Oct. 13, on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Twin NASA spacecraft destined to orbit Mars as a coordinated pair have arrived in Florida in preparation for launch.
NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE mission, passed a mission review on August 17, 2021, moving the mission into its next phase with a new target launch readiness date of October 2024.
