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Forest Hills Northern student Issac Mekaru is the 2023 winner of the Roger B. Chaffee scholarship. The astronaut, a Grand Rapids native, died in the Apollo I fire.

Deep space smallsats face big challenges More than half the cubesats that launched on Artemis 1 in November have suffered problems, underlining the myriad challenges facing small satellites beyond Earth’s orbit.

Nasa's ESCAPADE mission, which aims to study Mars' magnetosphere, will launch on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket, the agency has announced. The launch,

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The mission, known as ESCAPADE, is scheduled to launch in 2024. Blue Origin, the company owned by Jeff Bezos, is teaming up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a mission to Mars that is scheduled for late 2024.

According to Blue Origin, ESCAPADE is a twin-spacecraft Class D mission that will study solar wind energy transfer through Mars’ unique hybrid magnetosphere.

The US space agency has announced a science mission to Mars aboard Jeff Bezos-run Blue Origin's New Glenn space launch vehicleNASA awarded 'Mars Science Mission Launch' to Blue Origin's New Glenn as part of the Escape and Plasma Acceleration ...

NASA awarded Mars Science Mission Launch to Blue Origins New Glenn as part of the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) contract.ESCA

NASA awarded Mars Science Mission Launch to Blue Origins New Glenn as part of the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) contract.ESCA

After the excitement of the James Webb Telescope and asteroid-smashing DART launching in 2021, plus the worlds most powerful rocket blasting off this year, the attention turns to Britain in 2023.