Blue Origin successfully launches NASA’s mission to Mars

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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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New Glenn launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission, lands booster
Let's go on an ESCAPADE: NASA's small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars' atmosphere
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
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches rocket carrying Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars
It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ company and NASA are counting on to get people and supplies to the moon — and it was a complete success.

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle · 20h
NASA goes on an ESCAPADE – twin small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars’ atmosphere
Blue Origin successfully launches NASA spacecraft on journey to Mars after delays

Blue Origin launches Mars probes in NASA debut

Blue Origin Thursday launched its massive New Glenn rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, carrying small twin spacecraft toward Mars as part of NASA’s Escapade mission. It was Blue Origin’s first NASA mission and only the second launch of the 321-foot New Glenn.

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 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. 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.
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NASA launches spacecraft twins to unlock secrets of ancient Mars desert

Explore how ESCAPADE aims to uncover Mars' secrets and ensure safe astronaut missions with new insights into the planet's transformation and solar interactions.
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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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