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The challenge? Build twin satellites on a drastically tight timeline for a complex Mars mission, and do it for a tiny fraction of the typical cost of interplanetary missions.
Our team: You got it 🫡
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Atlas V returns to SLC-41 ahead of a launch attempt tomorrow night while New Glenn waits for its next opportunity.
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NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission is targeting no earlier than Oct. 13 for launch on a @BlueOrigin rocket.
ESCAPADE will study the interaction of solar wind with the magnetosphere on Mars: go.nasa.gov/4dWgDGg
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Dave Curtis 🛰🛰🔴🛰 + ☀️🛰 retweetledi
🛰️🛰️ Ready for Mars! We've shipped our twin spacecraft, Blue and Gold, off for launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida to enable @ucbssl and @NASA's ESCAPADE mission! Designed & built by our team, these spacecraft will help unravel Mars' magnetic fields & plasma mysteries. Learn more bit.ly/3SVANIj
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A New Glenn Second Stage was outside of the Blue Origin factory this morning with a convoy assembled around it, likely planning to head to Launch Complex 36 soon.
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Dave Curtis 🛰🛰🔴🛰 + ☀️🛰 retweetledi
Our Mars probes are complete! Now for the trip to Florida, then on to Mars! 🚀
Rocket Lab@RocketLab
📣 We have {double} the exciting news! Production is complete on our twin spacecraft headed to Mars for @ucbssl and @NASA ESCAPADE mission. 🛰️🛰️ Blue and Gold are now preparing to be packaged and shipped to Cape Canaveral for launch. More: bit.ly/3LL6mAG
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Dave Curtis 🛰🛰🔴🛰 + ☀️🛰 retweetledi
Boom! That's right we're testing the deployment of the 2-meter booms that houses our magnetometers and our multi-needle langmuir probes. Nice job Parth (in pic), they're delicate!
Rocket Lab@RocketLab
🔴 We’ve got Mars on our mind 🔴 This week the @ucbssl team has been in the cleanroom performing boom deploy tests on the science instruments headed to Mars on our twin spacecraft, Blue and Gold. Learn more about the @NASA ESCAPADE mission to Mars: science.nasa.gov/mission/escapa… 📸 @akd_ams
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Great work by the @ucbssl and @RocketLab teams 🛰️❤️. Gooo Escapade!!
Rocket Lab@RocketLab
All that glitters *is* Gold…and Blue! 🔵🟡 One of the twin spacecraft we're building for @NASA and @ucbssl's mission to Mars has completed its environmental testing after spending almost two weeks in the TVAC chamber. Gold is quickly catching up to its twin spacecraft Blue, as the team prepares for flight tank installs. Next up for the twins: Final integration and testing before they’re shipped off for launch 🚀
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Apparently Jurassic Park was released 31 years ago today! This kitchen scene still has me on edge when I watch. I think it’s the look on the raptors eyes.
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Our ESCAPADE spacecraft for @NASA and @ucbssl have been going through some very exciting times 🛰️
The lead spacecraft (Blue) recently completed vibe and shock testing and is gearing up for TVAC. Gold (the second spacecraft) is following closely behind and going through component closeout.
Not long to go before Blue and Gold get to meet the Red Planet!
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I really want this to go viral so we get people telling me I’m weird for wanting a door on my bathroom and that it’s actually really immoral to have a door please I need this I want this fight
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the hotel room my parents are in has no doors on the en-suite bathroom. As in that’s the design. If I saw an en suite bathroom with no doors I would simply perform a citizens arrest
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Dave Curtis 🛰🛰🔴🛰 + ☀️🛰 retweetledi
3…2…1… LIFTOFF of 2024! 🎉🚀
New Year? New Missions!
The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission consists of two identical spacecraft that will study the structure, composition, variability, and dynamics of Mars' unique hybrid magnetosphere.
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Dave Curtis 🛰🛰🔴🛰 + ☀️🛰 retweetledi
Our chariot awaits! Fantastic to see the LV vertical on the pad :)
Blue Origin@blueorigin
Meet New Glenn! Our vehicle upended on its launch pad today for the first time. The rocket will remain vertical for at least a week for a series of tests in preparation for its first launch later this year. Thank you to our customers, partners, and everyone else championing efforts to build a road to space for the benefit of Earth. Learn more: bit.ly/3UQK8TK
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Making a new dev Slack channel at work - can’t decide what to name it:
How Hard Could It Be?
Or
What Could Go Wrong?
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counting the number of presents under the tree Christmas morning:
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Bradley Smith, director of NASA's Launch Services Program, says the agency's Mars-bound ESCAPADE smallsats will fly on an "incredibly ambitious first launch for (Blue Origin's) New Glenn" rocket "around this time next year."
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What do you pack for a mission to Mars orbit to study the red planet’s magnetosphere?
Why a Floating Potential Probe, Planar Ion Probe & Electrostatic Analyzer, of course!
Exciting times at our spacecraft production complex where scientific instruments are being integrated with our twin spacecraft designed to study Mars’ magnetosphere in a mission for @NASA & @UCBSSL.
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@ridingrobots Afraid not, and I forget where I found it. Google image search is not very helpful.
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In my head, its name is Major Toad, and it survived
NASA History Office@NASAhistory
🔥 "This is fine." 🔥 – 🐸 #OTD 10 years ago, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft launched from @NASAWallops in Virginia. If you look closely, an airborne frog is visible in the backlit exhaust. The condition of the frog was never confirmed.
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