{"id":50841,"date":"2024-07-30T01:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-completes-escapade-spacecraft-testing-ready-to-ship-for-mars-launch-later-this-year\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:04:04","slug":"rocket-lab-completes-escapade-spacecraft-testing-ready-to-ship-for-mars-launch-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-completes-escapade-spacecraft-testing-ready-to-ship-for-mars-launch-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Completes ESCAPADE Spacecraft Testing, Ready to Ship for Mars Launch Later This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Global launch services company <strong>Rocket Lab USA<\/strong> confirmed Monday that it completed integration and testing of two spacecraft it built for The <strong>University of California Berkeley\u2019s Space Science Laboratory<\/strong> and <strong>NASA<\/strong>. The \u201cEscape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE)\u201d mission spacecraft will be shipped to Cape Canaveral in August, where they will be integrated onto <strong>Blue Origin<\/strong>\u2019s New Glenn rocket and then launched to orbit around Mars.<\/p>\n<p>ESCAPADE\u2019s heliophysics mission aims to measure plasma and magnetic fields around Mars, helping scientists from NASA and University of California learn more about the processes that strip away atoms from the planet\u2019s magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, driving Martian climate evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft, nicknamed \u201cBlue\u201d and \u201cGold,\u201d were built based on Rocket Lab\u2019s configurable, high delta-V interplanetary platform \u201cExplorer,\u201d and then tested at the company\u2019s Spacecraft Production Complex and headquarters in Long Beach, California. The two spacecraft feature Rocket Lab-built components and subsystems, including solar panels, star trackers, propellant tanks, reaction wheels, reaction control systems, radios, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRocket Lab has been an invaluable partner to UC Berkeley over the last four years of ESCAPADE\u2019s development,\u201d said ESCAPADE Principal Investigator and Associate Director for Planetary Science at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, Rob Lillis. \u201cTheir energetic, talented engineers and managers have consistently gone above and beyond in responding rapidly and constructively to both our requests and the inevitable challenges inherent in developing new scientific spacecraft. We are proud to be flying with Rocket Lab to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global launch services company Rocket Lab USA confirmed Monday that it completed integration and testing of two spacecraft it built for The University of California Berkeley\u2019s Space Science Laboratory and NASA. The \u201cEscape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE)\u201d mission spacecraft will be shipped to Cape Canaveral in August, where they will be integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}