SOL 26 OF ACIDALIO OF YEAR 39 · 00:16 MTC
DAY 25 OF OCTOBER OF YEAR 2026 · 22:46 UTC
2001 Mars Odyssey: Two and a Half Decades of Uninterrupted Orbital Vigilance at the Red Planet
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SOL 22 OF ACIDALIO OF YEAR 39 · 00:57 MTC
DAY 21 OF OCTOBER OF YEAR 2026 · 20:50 UTC
ESCAPADE Prepares its Mars Trajectory Resumption After a Unique Orbital Loiter Phase
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SOL 21 OF ACIDALIO OF YEAR 39 · 14:25 MTC
DAY 21 OF OCTOBER OF YEAR 2026 · 10:00 UTC
Bound for the Martian Moons: Japan's MMX Mission Clears Its Critical Phase
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ESCAPADE Gold (SIMPLEx-4B)
Launch: SOL 23 OF JUVENO OF YEAR 38 · 04:39 MTC
(DAY 13 OF NOVEMBER OF YEAR 2025 · 20:55 UTC)
ESCAPADE Gold (SIMPLEx-4B) is one of the two twin spacecraft of NASA's ESCAPADE mission designed to jointly investigate Mars' three-dimensional magnetosphere and the loss of its atmosphere to the solar wind. Launched on November 13, 2025, via a New Glenn rocket, it is currently in interplanetary transit with an expected arrival at Mars in September 2027.
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ESCAPADE Blue (SIMPLEx-4A)
Launch: SOL 23 OF JUVENO OF YEAR 38 · 04:39 MTC
(DAY 13 OF NOVEMBER OF YEAR 2025 · 20:55 UTC)
The ESCAPADE Blue mission (SIMPLEx-4A), developed by NASA and UC Berkeley alongside industrial partners, is part of a pair of twin spacecraft designed to study Mars' hybrid magnetosphere in stereo for the first time. Launched in November 2025, it is currently in its cruise phase toward the red planet to quantify atmospheric loss processes.
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Europa Clipper
Launch: SOL 9 OF RAVIO OF YEAR 37 · 13:36 MTC
(DAY 14 OF OCTOBER OF YEAR 2024 · 16:06 UTC)
NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launched in October 2024 aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket, is currently in its interplanetary cruise phase heading toward the Jupiter system. After successfully completing a gravity assist and calibration flyby of Mars in February 2025, the spacecraft is headed toward an upcoming Earth gravity assist maneuver. Its primary goal upon arriving at Jupiter will be to assess the habitability of the moon Europa through multiple scientific flybys.
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