Blue Origin successfully launches NASA’s mission to Mars

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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
The twin ESCAPADE Mars probes just took flight — but they won't reach their destination until late 2027.

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New Glenn launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission, lands booster
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Satellites Deployed, Targeting Mars in 2027
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, is set for another attempt to launch its towering New Glenn rocket on a mission that will mark its first major test.

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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin launches NASA Mars spacecraft on first New Glenn flight
Blue Origin launches NASA Mars spacecraft, lands booster during historic New Glenn mission
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket deploys Mars satellites, sticks booster landing
A live Blue Origin webcast showed the rocket ascending from its launch tower in a roar of flames and billowing clouds of vapor moments after its seven BE-4 engines thundered to life, gulping more than...

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launches NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes
The huge win Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just achieved with the launch of New Glenn rocket after solar storms delayed liftoff

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.

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 help unleash: one where small,

Bay Area scientists set to launch mission to Mars that could help pave way for human trips

“It’s a huge privilege to be leading a mission to Mars,” said Robert Lillis, the UC Berkeley planetary scientist leading the international team of researchers, over email. “ (ESCAPADE) will give us a whole new set of ‘eyes’ in understanding how space weather buffets Mars’ atmosphere … It’s hugely significant.”
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