ESCAPADE Program
NASA’s active twin-spacecraft Mars mission studying how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ hybrid magnetosphere and drives atmospheric escape. ESCAPADE launched on 13 November 2025 and will use a loiter orbit, Earth gravity assist, and Mars orbit operations to investigate the planet’s space-weather response and climate history.
Identity
- Aliases
- ESCAPADEEscape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics ExplorersESCAPADE MissionEscape and Plasma Acceleration Dynamics Explorers
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- ESCAPADE Program
- Status
- active
- Types
- scienceresearchoperations
Details
- Description
- NASA’s active twin-spacecraft Mars mission studying how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ hybrid magnetosphere and drives atmospheric escape. ESCAPADE launched on 13 November 2025 and will use a loiter orbit, Earth gravity assist, and Mars orbit operations to investigate the planet’s space-weather response and climate history.
- Leads
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 2025-11-13
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:26:46 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:26:46 UTC
Other
- Official Urls
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/escapade/https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-escapade-ready-to-study-space-weather-from-earth-to-mars/https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-blue-origin-launch-two-spacecraft-to-study-mars-solar-wind/https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapade/2026/01/07/nasas-escapade-spacecraft-completes-trajectory-maneuver/