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Blue Origin Sends NASA Mission To Mars, Followed By First-Ever Successful Landing Of New Glenn's Booster

It’s off! The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission is on its way to Mars. It was sent into orbit by New Glenn, the heavy-lift launch vehicle from Blue Origin, the ...
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NASA's Next Mission to Mars Is Taking an Unexpected Route

There are a few notable elements to NASA’s launch this week of a new mission to Mars, known as Escapade. There’s the matter ...
The New York Times

Almost Everything About NASA’s Latest Mission to Mars Is Unusual

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...
SpaceNews

How carrying enough water to make return-trip propellant simplifies a Starship mission to Mars

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...
SpaceNews

Rocket Lab-built Mars smallsats arrive at launch site

The twin ESCAPADE spacecraft at Rocket Lab's factory before shipment to Florida for launch. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — A pair of smallsats built by Rocket Lab for a NASA mission to Mars have ...