US EditionNASA's ESCAPADE Mission to Mars—Twin Satellites Dubbed Blue and Gold Will Launch in Early November
ESCAPADE's twin satellites Blue and Gold will provide 3D maps of Mars's atmosphere and magnetic fields to help forecast harmful solar storms, aiding future human missions, NASA says.
- On Sunday, Nov. 9, NASA will launch the $80 million ESCAPADE mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn, sending twin probes Blue and Gold to orbit Mars.
- Around 4 billion years ago, Mars lost its global magnetic field, leaving a tenuous atmosphere less than 1% as dense as Earth's, and ESCAPADE seeks to study how solar wind drives atmospheric escape.
- Using identical instrument suites, each probe will first head to a Lagrange point in a 12-month kidney-bean orbit before approaching Mars, then perform joint and separated observations.
- The mission's data will help forecast solar storms that could harm astronauts, map magnetic fields and ionosphere for communications, and test flexible trajectories easing launch windows and planetary alignment.
- Lillis called ESCAPADE 'a new way of doing things, with much lower cost, more commercial involvement, and a somewhat higher risk tolerance,' which could support future Mars settlement logistics, the team says.
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