New Glenn | EscaPADE

Launch Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Launch Site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch Vehicle: New Glenn

Status: To Be Determined

Mission Details

Maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars. The spacecrafts' scientific goals are to understand the processes controlling the structure of Mars' hybrid magnetosphere and how it guides ion flows; understand how energy and momentum are transported from the solar wind through Mars' magnetosphere; and understand the processes controlling the flow of energy and matter into and out of the collisional atmosphere.

Launch Service Provider

Blue Origin (BO)

Rocket Information

Configuration: New Glenn
Manufacturer: Blue Origin
Payload Capacity to LEO: 45000 kg
Height: 82 meters
Diameter: 7 meters

Launch Pad

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Launch Complex 36A

Updates

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:42:00 GMT
NET Q3 2025.
by Cosmic_Penguin
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:55:00 GMT
Launch delayed to Q2 2025.
by hitura-nobad
Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:46:31 GMT
NET October 13
by Nosu
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:53:31 GMT
NET September 29.
by Cosmic_Penguin
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:45:56 GMT
Renamed launch to reflect ESCAPADE as being on first launch of New Glenn.
by Cosmic_Penguin
Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:19:29 GMT
NET August 2024
by Jay
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:25:02 GMT
Added launch. NET late 2024
by Jay