EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

Mars

NASA’s ESCAPADE Ready to Study Space Weather from Earth to Mars

Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold, dry, and draped by a thin atmospheric veil. The main culprit is a relentless stream of particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Over billions of years, the solar wind has stripped away […]

Posted February 26, 2026

EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

Heliophysics

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Program

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

NASA, Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind

A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m.

Posted November 14, 2025

EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to Attend Mars Mission Launch

NASA and Blue Origin are reopening media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission.

Posted October 1, 2025

Kennedy Space Center

Artemis

Artemis 2

Artemis 3

Artemis 4

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Commercial Resupply

Commercial Space

Commercial Space Programs

CubeSat Launch Initiative

EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

Exploration Ground Systems

Gateway Space Station

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

Launch Services Program

Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply

Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite

Sentinel-6B

Space Launch System (SLS)

SpaceX Commercial Resupply

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)

Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Looks to Thrive in 2025

As NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida wraps up a year that will see more than 90 government, commercial, and private missions launch from Florida’s Space Coast, a look to 2025 shows the missions, partnerships, projects, and programs at the agency’s main launch site will continue innovating, inspiring, and pushing the boundaries of exploration f

Posted December 18, 2024

EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

Commercial Space

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

Science Mission Directorate

NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to New Glenn Launch of Mars Mission

NASA and Blue Origin are preparing for the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission, which begins on the inaugural launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The mission will study the solar wind’s interaction with the magnetosphere on Mars. Blue Origin is targeting no earlier than Sunday, Oct.

Posted August 26, 2024

Kennedy Space Center

Artemis

Artemis 2

Artemis 3

Commercial Crew

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Commercial Resupply

CubeSat Launch Initiative

EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

Europa Clipper

General

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

International Space Station (ISS)

Launch Services Program

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment)

Private Astronaut Missions

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

Space Launch System (SLS)

SpaceX Commercial Resupply

Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center Looks Ahead to a Busy Year in 2024

Another jam-packed year is in store for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as the momentum of a busy 2023 is carried forward into the new year. On the horizon are missions to the Moon, more crew and cargo flights to the International Space Station, and several upgrade projects across the spaceport. NASA’s first CLPS […]

Posted December 21, 2023