University of California

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...
Phys.org

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, ...
Phys.org

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 ...
Georgia Tech News Center

NASA Goes On an ESCAPADE – Twin 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 ...
SpaceNews

ESCAPADE to launch on second New Glenn

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft being prepares for shipment to Florida for a second launch attempt on Blue Origin’s New Glenn. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has confirmed that a NASA ...
Space on MSN

NASA's ESCAPADE mission will investigate space weather around Mars

NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) is a pair of spacecraft that will study space weather ...
Aerospace and Mechanical Insider on MSN

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 ...
CNET

NASA's Escapade Mission May Finally Reveal How the Martian Atmosphere Works

Joe is a freelance journalist. It all started with a long-running affection for building his own PCs, which he did for the first time as a teenager. It evolved into a lifelong enjoyment of putting ...
SpaceNews

NASA’s ESCAPADE could launch on second New Glenn

WASHINGTON — A NASA Mars smallsat mission bumped from the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn is tentatively set to fly on the second New Glenn later this summer. A line in NASA’s fiscal year 2026 ...
SFGate

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 ...