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NASA pushes ESCAPADE Mars launch to 2025

Blue Origin’s towering New Glenn rocket, a partially reusable heavy-lift vehicle designed to compete in the high-stakes ...
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Let's go on an ESCAPADE: NASA's small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars' atmosphere

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will ...
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Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launches NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes

Nov. 13 (UPI) --Blue Origin's New Glenn booster rocket successfully launched its second-ever trip into space on Thursday to deploy two NASA satellites that are bound for Mars. The unmanned New Glenn ...
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NASA's Escapade Mars Mission Will Be Completely Different - Here's How

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...
Tennessean

NASA postpones Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch attempt, citing solar activity

(This story has been updated to include Blue Origin's new target launch date.) Solar activity — which generated a rare overnight display of the northern lights on Florida's Space Coast — has triggered ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA goes on an ESCAPADE – twin small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars’ atmosphere

(THE CONVERSATION) Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics ...
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Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...
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Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College (THE CONVERSATION) After a yearslong series of setbacks ...