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EscaPADE

New Glenn, flown by Blue Origin

New Glenn lifting off with the EscaPADE mission
Image via The Space Devs.

This was Blue Origin's 10th launch of 2025, and its 38th in all.

Counting every operator, it was the 267th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the second from Launch Complex 36A.

Launched
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, 8:55 p.m. UTC
Window
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, 7:57 to 9:25 p.m. UTC
Launch site
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Rocket
New Glenn
Operator
Blue Origin
Weather
99% favorable

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The mission

Second flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission from University of California, Berkeley 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.

Type
Planetary science
Destination
Mars orbit
Program
Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration

Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) is a planetary exploration program operated by NASA. The program funds small, low-cost spacecraft for stand-alone planetary exploration missions. These spacecraft are intended to launch as secondary payloads on other missions and are riskier than Discovery or New Frontiers missions.

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The rocket

The New Glenn is a privately funded orbital launch vehicle in development by Blue Origin. New Glenn is described as a 7-meter-diameter (23 ft), two- or three-stage rocket.

Height
98 m
Built by
Blue Origin
First flew
January 16, 2025
Lifts to low Earth orbit
45,000 kg
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Lifts to geostationary transfer
13,000 kg
Diameter
7 m
Thrust at liftoff
17,126 kN
Stages
2

3 flights, 2 of them successful. 2 boosters brought back from 3 attempts.

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The operator

Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

Sector
Commercial
Based in
USA
Founded
2000
Run by
Jeff Bezos, CEO

41 launches so far, 39 of them successful.

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The launch site

It went up from Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.

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