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NASA renews commitment to Europe's life-hunting Mars rover despite Trump budget cuts

The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover is 300 kilograms Mars exploration robot fitted with 2 meters drill to search for signs of life below the Red Planet's radiation-battered surface.

With new developments needed, ESA established a new launch date for the rover in 2028.

src: space.com/space-exploration/na

NASA’s Artemis 2 moon rocket comes together | Space photo of the day for Nov. 21, 2025

The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early 2026.

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NASA's ESCAPADE mission will investigate space weather around Mars (5 min)
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The twin ESCAPADE Mars probes just took flight — but they won't reach their destination until late 2027.

The ESCAPADE probes will hang out at L2 (the sun-Earth Lagrange Point)* for 12 months, studying space weather in the region before looping back toward our planet in November 2026 for a speed-boosting "gravity assist" that will send them toward Mars.

* A gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet.

src: space.com/astronomy/mars/next-

Replay: New Glenn Mission NG-2 Webcast

New Glenn completed its second mission, successfully deploying NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) twin-spacecraft into orbit, and landing the fully reusable first stage on Jacklyn in the Atlantic Ocean.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ecfxcTEl

Intense solar storm delays Blue Origin launch of NASA Mars probes

Blue Origin is now targeting Thursday (Nov. 13) for the ESCAPADE launch.

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Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket launch a NASA 'ESCAPADE' to Mars on Nov. 12 after weather delay
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Jared Isaacman - China vs. America: Who Will Reach the Moon and Colonize Mars First? (3 hours interview published 1 month ago)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Osxqifu

SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder 'Haven Demo,' 17 other satellites to orbit

SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder 'Haven Demo,' 17 other satellites to orbit (video)
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* Haven-1 is a planned space station in low Earth orbit that is currently in development by American aerospace company Vast.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven-1

Blue Origin fires up powerful New Glenn rocket ahead of NASA Mars mission launch (video)

NASA's ESCAPADE mission remains on track to launch as soon as Nov. 9.

NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) twin spacecraft will head to orbit around Mars, where they will study the Red Planet's magnetosphere and analyze how energetic solar wind particles interact with the Martian atmosphere.

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