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NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to 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 ...
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Next stop, not Mars: Why NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes are taking the long way to the Red Planet after Blue Origin launch

For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...

Low-cost mission launches to study space weather at Mars

A pair of small satellites began their 2 year journey to Mars to study the red planet's magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped the atmosphere there over millions of years ...

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...

ESCAPADE Mission: NASA To Send Twin Orbiters To Decode Mars' Magnetic Mysteries

The mission is scheduled to launch on November 9, aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...