NASA and Blue Beginning are making ready for the company’s ESCAPADE (Get away and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) undertaking, which starts at the inaugural release of the corporate’s New Glenn rocket. The undertaking will learn about the sun wind’s interplay with the magnetosphere on Mars.
Blue Beginning is concentrated on no previous than Sunday, Oct. 13, for the release of New Glenn-1 from Area Release Advanced 36 at Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida.
Media inquisitive about protecting ESCAPADE release actions for each NASA and Blue Beginning will have to practice for media credentials. Cut-off dates for accreditation are as follows:
U.S. media and U.S. electorate representing world media will have to practice via 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 30.
World media with out U.S. citizenship will have to practice via 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Media accreditation requests will have to be submitted on-line at:
A replica of NASA’s media accreditation coverage is to be had on-line. For questions on accreditation, please e mail: ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov. For different undertaking questions, please touch NASA Kennedy’s newsroom: 321-867-2468.
The ESCAPADE undertaking will use two similar spacecraft to research how the sun wind interacts with the hybrid magnetosphere on Mars and the way this interplay drives the planet’s atmospheric get away. The undertaking is funded via NASA’s Heliophysics Department and is a part of the NASA Small Leading edge Missions for Planetary Exploration program. The ESCAPADE undertaking is led via the College of California, Berkeley’s Area Sciences Laboratory, and the spacecraft is designed via Rocket Lab. The company’s Release Services and products Program, primarily based at NASA Kennedy, secured the release provider below the VADR (Undertaking-class Acquisition of Devoted and Rideshare) contract.
NASA will put up updates on release arrangements for the dual Martian orbiters at the ESCAPADE weblog.
For more info about ESCAPADE, consult with:
Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con Antonia Jaramillo at: antonia.jaramillobotero@nasa.gov, 321-501-8425, o Messod Bendayan, 256-930-1371.
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Karen Fox
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
karen.fox@nasa.gov
Laura Aguiar / Leejay Lockhart
Kennedy Area Middle, Florida
321-867-2468
laura.aguiar@nasa.gov / leejay.lockhart@nasa.gov
Sarah Frazier
Goddard Area Flight Middle
202-853-7191
sarah.frazier@nasa.gov
