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 […]
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is supporting suborbital rocket launch operations during a window extending from Nov. 14 -21, 2025. No real-time launch status updates or livestream will be available.
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 […]
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The December 2014 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting. How to answer. Your answer can be […]
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 Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the adapter connects the rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion […]
The Sentinel-6B spacecraft recently made a crucial transition in its prelaunch journey when technicians transferred the spacecraft from the NASA hangar to the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on Sept. 24. After the move, technicians removed the satellite from its transport container and began processing activities. At […]
Space science hardware once again topped the schedule for the Expedition 73 crew aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. Life support and electronics maintenance to keep the orbital outpost in tip-top shape filled the rest of the day for the space lab residents.
