Posted on 11/09/2025 11:34:16 AM PST by know.your.why
Launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn-2 is today. Launch window opens at 2:45EST (about 15 minutes from now).
New Glenn-2 first stage is almost 4 million lbs total thrust.
Payload is the Escapade Mars probe. Escapade will use two identical spacecraft to investigate how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ magnetic environment and how this interaction drives the planet’s atmospheric escape.
Go Blue!!
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What a waste of a Mars mission. Who cares how the solar wind messes with the atmosphere of Mars? It’s not like anything can be done about it. I’m all for space exploration but at least try to do something that can help the people of our planet.
in a hold right now another hour in the launch window
Scrubbed due to weather.
Scrub, they plan to try again.
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