NASA Mars ESCAPADE Mission Twin Spacecraft in New Glenn Rocket | Blue Origin
NASA's two ESCAPADE Mission spacecraft, manufactured by Rocket Lab, have been successfully encapsulated into New Glenn's 7-meter rocket fairing for the launch that will occur no earlier than November 9, 2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Blue Origin is working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to confirm the final flight arrangements.
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, which is responsible for mission management, systems engineering, science leadership, navigation, operations, the electron & ion electrostatic analyzers, and 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:
Release Dates: Nov. 6-7, 2025
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