Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Reusable First Stage Landing on Drone Ship

Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Reusable First Stage Landing on Drone Ship

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket successfully launched NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission! Liftoff occurred on November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM EST/20:45 UTC. This was the second mission to date for the New Glenn rocket series. Blue Origin also landed the fully reusable New Glenn first stage on the drone ship Jacklyn in the Atlantic Ocean. 

The NASA Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) Mars Mission will study the planet's unique hybrid magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape. It will take ESCAPADE about 11 months to arrive at Mars after leaving Earth orbit.

ESCAPADE is led by the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. It is responsible for mission management, systems engineering, science leadership, navigation, operations, the electron and ion electrostatic analyzers, plus science data processing and archiving.

Key partners are Rocket Lab USA (spacecraft), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (magnetometers), Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (Langmuir probes), Advanced Space LLC (mission design), and Blue Origin (launch).

Learn more about the two identical spacecraft designed, built, integrated, and tested by Rocket Lab for the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA's Mars Mission:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade
https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu

🚀Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket:

https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn

The twin spacecraft for NASA's ESCAPADE Mars Mission were manufactured by Rocket Lab:

https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/escapade/

Image Credits: Blue Origin
Duration: 37 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 13, 2025

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