Mars-bound Spacecraft Start Their Journey | NASA's ESCAPADE Mission
Two spacecraft designed and built by Rocket Lab are about to execute a trans-Mars Injection (TMI) to propel themselves to Mars using Earth's gravity as a boost. The ESCAPADE Mission will help us better understand the Sun’s influence on Mars’ past and present. Its work could help protect human explorers from potentially dangerous space weather when they set foot on the Red Planet.
Since launch twelve months ago, the spacecraft we built for NASA and UC Berkeley's ESCAPADE Mission have been in space making small course corrections.
Now that Earth and Mars are aligned, they will ignite each of their engines for about 9 minutes each to begin their journey to the Red Planet to study its atmosphere.
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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).
https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu
Duration: 3 minutes, 29 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 6, 2026
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