NASA’s latest Mars mission is not taking the familiar highway. Instead of a direct cruise along the classic Hohmann transfer, the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft are threading a longer, more intricate path ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s ESCAPADE mission will explore Mars’ atmosphere and magnetic fields from a never-before-tried trajectory. | ©Image Credit: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twin Mars orbiters for NASA's EscaPADE mission are secured within the nose cone of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on October 31 in ...

A pair of small satellites launched aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket last week, bound for Mars. The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

All Mars launches are big deals, but this one had some extra juice. NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission lifted off atop Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket from Florida's Space Coast on Thursday (Nov. 13 ...

(CNN) — Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.

The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral ...