Blue Origin Launches NASA Satellites on Mars Mission

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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.

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Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket on NASA Mars mission. Here's a recap
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NASA Trying Out Unusual Way to Launch for Mars, Planet's Proximity No Longer a Factor
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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Blue Origin launches NASA’s Mars-bound satellites — and sticks the landing
Let’s go on an ESCAPADE – NASA’s small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars’ atmosphere
Blue Origin launches Mars probes in NASA debut
Unlike the orbital rocket’s inaugural launch in January, its booster successfully touched down on Blue Origin’s landing barge, a feat previously accomplished only by Elon Musk’s rival aerospace compan...

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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches rocket carrying Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars
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NASA goes on an ESCAPADE – twin small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars’ atmosphere

NASA sends twin spacecraft to Mars with a push from Blue Origin

Hitching a ride on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket, NASA's pair of Escapade (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecrafts were launched at at 3:55 p.m. ET Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Blue Origin successfully launches NASA spacecraft on journey to Mars after delays

NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft launched aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket Thursday afternoon from Cape Canaveral, beginning their journey to Mars with arrival expected in 2027.

Blue Origin launches huge rocket carrying twin NASA spacecraft to Mars

Created in 2000 by Bezos, Amazon’s founder, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by astronauts under the Artemis program. Elon Musk’s SpaceX beat out Blue Origin for the first and second crew landings, using Starships, nearly 100 feet (30 meters) taller than Bezos’ New Glenn.

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,
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This Mars-Bound Spacecraft Will Test Jared Isaacman’s Vision for NASA

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans
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