Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique ”EscaPADE’ Mission to Mars

Blue Origin is livestreaming the launch of its New Glenn rocketreports CNN, “where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.” By observing two Mars locations simultaneously, this mission can measure how Mars responds to space weather in real time — and how the Martian magnetosphere changes…

Called EscaPADE, the mission will aim for an orbital trajectory that has never been attempted before, according to…