Tech mogul Jeff Bezos has announced the long-awaited maiden flight date of his aerospace company Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Scheduled for October 13, this launch represents a crucial milestone for the company and for space exploration, as it will carry two NASA probes as part of the ESCAPADE mission to Mars.
New Glenn rocket to unveil secrets of the red planet
The New Glenn, a spacecraftspacecraft, will launch from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during a window of opportunity lined up for travel to the red planet. This mission seeks to understand how the solar wind interacts with the magnetic field of MarsThis mission seeks to understand how the solar wind interacts with the magnetic field of Mars, vital information for future interplanetary travel.
Blue Origin to launch NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars. Source: NASA Space News via YouTube
Blue Origin, founded with the vision of expanding human human presence in spaceis facing its first major challenge since the company’s founding. After years of development and some delays, this launch will mark the debut of the New Glenn and a return to competition in the private space sector.
The ESCAPADE missionmission, managed by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, together with partners such as Rocket Lab and NASA, is the first to send multiple spacecraft to study the Martian atmosphere in real time. This project promises to reveal how Mars’ magnetosphere reacts to space weather, a key to understanding the past and future of the planet’s atmosphere.
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Source: 20minutos
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