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Mars Exploration News 16 June 2025 - 14 November 2025

New Glenn Launches NASA’s ESCAPADE to Mars, Nails First Sea Landing (Nov. 13, 2025)

New Glenn Launches NASA’s ESCAPADE to Mars, Nails First Sea Landing (Nov. 13, 2025)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — November 13, 2025. Blue Origin’s heavy‑lift New Glenn rocket roared off Space Launch Complex 36 at 3:55 p.m. EST, sending NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft on the first leg of a long cruise to Mars—and then stuck the vehicle’s first-ever booster landing at sea. The on‑time liftoff followed a string of weather and space‑weather delays earlier in the week. AP News+3NASA Science+3The Washington Post+3 Minutes after stage separation, the 320‑foot‑class launcher’s first stage—nicknamed Never Tell Me the Odds”—descended to a pinpoint touchdown on Blue Origin’s autonomous landing ship Jacklyn in the Atlantic. The recovery marks a pivotal
14 November 2025
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Rocket Lab Stock Skyrockets 700% – Is RKLB Ready for Its Next Giant Leap?

Rocket Lab’s 2025 Blast-Off: 700% Stock Surge, Record Launches, and Mars Mission Milestones

Recent Launch Contracts & Mission Milestones Rocket Lab’s fall 2025 has been marked by significant contract wins and mission milestones. The headline news is the expanded partnership with Synspective, a Japanese Earth-imaging company. On September 29, Rocket Lab announced a second multi-launch contract with Synspective for 10 additional Electron launches, on top of an existing deal for 11 launches globenewswire.com. This brought Synspective’s total contracted missions to 21 dedicated Electron flights – the largest single-customer deal in Rocket Lab’s history globenewswire.com. All 21 missions are slated to launch from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand over the coming
7 October 2025
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NASA’s New Astronaut Class of 2025 Makes History with “All-American” Recruits Poised for Moon and Mars

NASA’s New Astronaut Class of 2025 Makes History with “All-American” Recruits Poised for Moon and Mars

Overview of the 2025 Astronaut Class Announcement NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class – the ten selectees pose at Johnson Space Center in Houston after their introduction on September 22, 2025. NASA unveiled this All-American” 2025 astronaut class during a live ceremony, marking the agency’s first new astronaut cohort since 2021. The announcement followed a highly competitive process: more than 8,000 Americans applied, hoping to earn a coveted spot in NASA’s astronaut corps. Ultimately, 10 candidates (6 women and 4 men) were chosen, all U.S. citizens hailing from every corner of this nation,” as NASA’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy noted in
23 September 2025
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Life on Mars? Saturn’s Surprise and More – The Biggest Science Breakthroughs (Sept 21–22, 2025)

Life on Mars? Saturn’s Surprise and More – The Biggest Science Breakthroughs (Sept 21–22, 2025)

Key Facts: Astronomy & Space Webb Hints at Atmosphere on an Earth-Like Exoplanet: Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope announced intriguing results from the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. JWST observed the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e (about 41 light-years away) as it passed in front of its star, and the data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere” scitechdaily.com. This planet lies in the star’s temperate habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. If further Webb observations confirm an atmosphere, it would mark the first-ever detection of an atmosphere on a rocky world in a star’s habitable zone scitechdaily.com – a major
22 September 2025
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Space Weekend Shockers: Starlink Blitz, Moon Rover Revival & Mars Life Clues (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Space Weekend Shockers: Starlink Blitz, Moon Rover Revival & Mars Life Clues (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Key Facts Satellite Launches & Mission Updates SpaceX’s Starlink Surge: SpaceX capped a busy week with back-to-back Starlink launches. On Sept. 19, a Falcon 9 from foggy Vandenberg SFB deployed 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit space.com, using a veteran booster on its 10th flight space.com. This boosted the Starlink constellation to around 8,400 active satellites, the largest ever space.com. Just hours later, SpaceX rolled out another Falcon 9 in Florida for a near-sunrise launch on Sept. 21 carrying 28 more Starlink V2 Mini satellites spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral at 6:53 a.m. EDT Sunday went off smoothly, with the booster landing at sea
21 September 2025
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Possible Life on Mars, ‘Black Hole Stars’ and a Global Diabetes Bombshell – Science News Roundup (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Possible Life on Mars, ‘Black Hole Stars’ and a Global Diabetes Bombshell – Science News Roundup (Sept 15–16, 2025)

NASA Rover Finds Possible Biosignature – Closest Hint Yet of Life on Mars In a sensational development for astrobiology, NASA announced that Perseverance has collected a Mars rock sample that could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life” nasa.gov. The rover drilled the sample, nicknamed Sapphire Canyon,” from an ancient riverbed formation rich in clay – exactly the kind of environment that on Earth traps and preserves organic remains nasa.gov nasa.gov. Inside the rock, scientists detected certain organic molecules and chemical patterns that are considered potential biosignatures, meaning they might be remnants of past life (though not yet proof of it)
16 September 2025
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ISRO’s Lunar Success (Chandrayaan-3) and Momentum for Mars Exploration

ISRO’s Lunar Success (Chandrayaan-3) and Momentum for Mars Exploration

Chandrayaan-3, launched July 2023, achieved a soft landing near the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023, with lander Vikram and six-wheeled rover Pragyan. The mission conducted 14 days of surface operations and returned at least 1100 images and data, including ChaSTE soil temperature measurements to 10 cm depth. Chandrayaan-3 marked India’s first soft landing in the lunar south polar region and made India the fourth country to soft-land on the Moon. The mission cost was about $75 million. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM / Mangalyaan-1) launched on November 5, 2013 atop a PSLV-XL, with a dry mass of about
16 June 2025
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