NASA Awards Mars Science Mission Launch to Blue Origin’ New Glenn
February 9, 2023 – NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) awarded Blue Origin’s New Glenn the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) contract. ESCAPADE is part of the NASA Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program; it is a dual spacecraft mission to study Mars’ magnetosphere. ESCAPADE is a twin-spacecraft Class D mission…