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Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Mars Probes on Nov. 9: Time, Livestream, Mission Goals, and What Happens Next

Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Mars Probes on Nov. 9: Time, Livestream, Mission Goals, and What Happens Next

Published: November 7, 2025 Key facts at a glance What’s launching and why it matters Blue Origin’s New Glenn is slated to lift off Nov. 9 carrying ESCAPADE—Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers—two identical NASA satellites designed to explain how Mars lost most of its atmosphere and water. The probes will make coordinated measurements to build a 3D, time‑varying picture of Mars’ upper atmosphere and magnetic environment, something a single spacecraft can’t do. It’s NASA’s first dual‑satellite mission to another planet, marking a milestone for low‑cost planetary science. Space Each spacecraft carries electrostatic analyzers (UC Berkeley) to track charged
8 November 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System

Comet 3I/ATLAS Today (Nov 7, 2025): New Mars‑orbiter images, how to see it before dawn, and what scientists are learning about this interstellar visitor

Updated: November 7, 2025 — Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (also cataloged as C/2025 N1 [ATLAS]) has re-emerged from behind the Sun and is back on astronomers’ morning watch lists. Fresh coverage today highlights new imagery from Mars orbit, public tools to follow its path, and why agencies are mobilizing to study only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen. Space+2WIRED+2 What’s new today (Nov 7) Quick facts at a glance Back in our skies: where and how to see 3I/ATLAS The comet is again observable from Earth in the pre‑dawn sky, very low toward the eastern horizon. It remains a small‑telescope
7 November 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System

Comet 3I/ATLAS today (6 Nov 2025): China’s Mars orbiter snaps new photos as the interstellar visitor turns bluer and shows puzzling acceleration

Updated: 6 November 2025 — A rapid, reader-friendly briefing on the third interstellar object ever found, tailored for Google News & Discover. At a glance — what’s new on Nov 5–6 China’s Tianwen‑1 just gave us a rare Mars‑orbit look at 3I/ATLAS China’s space agency says the Tianwen‑1 Mars orbiter used its high‑resolution camera to observe 3I/ATLAS during the object’s close pass by Mars (early October), when the spacecraft was ~30 million km from the comet—one of the nearest probe‑based looks so far. The agency released images and a brief 30‑second sequence showing the comet’s motion, adding that the observation
6 November 2025
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‘Yeast Survives Mars’ & ESA’s ‘Protein Out of Thin Air’: How Biology Is Rewriting the Mars Menu — and What It Means for Investors

‘Yeast Survives Mars’ & ESA’s ‘Protein Out of Thin Air’: How Biology Is Rewriting the Mars Menu — and What It Means for Investors

Key facts (updated Nov 5, 2025): The story: Biology is moving from thought experiment to flight plan Europe’s HOBI‑WAN pilot (Hydrogen‑Oxidizing Bacteria in Weightlessness As a source of Nutrition) is ESA’s clearest sign yet that microbial food production will be part of living off‑Earth. The agency says the demonstrator feeds a bacterial culture with stored gases (H₂, O₂, CO₂) to produce Solein, a protein‑rich powder that needs “neither farmland nor sunlight.” The ISS testbed will ride in a standard locker and includes safety‑critical gas‑injection cartridges because hydrogen/oxygen handling in microgravity must be fail‑safe. The first eight months build and validate
5 November 2025
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SpaceX’s Starship Triumph Sparks Moon Race 2.0 with China – Stocks Take Off

NASA’s Epic Week: Moon Rocket Ready, Mars Life Clue, and an Interstellar Visitor

Artemis on the Fast Track – and a New Moon Race NASA’s Moon program reached a major milestone this week: engineers at Kennedy Space Center finished stacking the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis 2, placing the Orion crew capsule (nicknamed “Integrity”) atop the booster space.com. “The towering rocket…has come together,” NASA announced, after hoisting Orion onto SLS inside the Vehicle Assembly Building space.com. This completed rocket – set to launch four astronauts around the Moon – was even exempted from the ongoing federal shutdown, underscoring Artemis 2’s high priority space.com. The mission is targeting February 2026 for liftoff, which would mark
27 October 2025
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Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System Humanity has waited a long time to study a comet from another star – and suddenly, within a decade, we’ve had three. 3I/ATLAS (officially 3I/2025 A1) is the latest of these rare interstellar interlopers. It was first detected moving through the outer Solar System in June 2025 with an exceptionally eccentric orbit. Follow-up observations quickly confirmed what its speed and trajectory implied: this object was not bound to the Sun’s gravity ts2.tech. By July 2025, the Minor Planet Center designated it the third interstellar object ever found ts2.tech. Like its predecessors – the cigar-shaped 1I/‘Oumuamua and cometary 2I/Borisov –
8 October 2025
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Starlink Soars, Mars Reveals Life Clues & Space Industry Shuffles – Oct 5–6, 2025

Starlink Soars, Mars Reveals Life Clues & Space Industry Shuffles – Oct 5–6, 2025

Key Facts All the Satellite & Space News – In Depth Relentless Launch Pace: Starlink, Starships and More SpaceX continues to push the envelope on launch cadence. In the early hours of October 6, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying 24 Starlink satellites to orbit en.wikipedia.org. The mission had been slated for the weekend but was postponed a day by stormy Florida weather news.satnews.com. With its successful flight just after midnight, SpaceX has topped 125 Falcon 9 launches this year space.com – a staggering rate that underscores how routine orbital launches have become for Elon Musk’s company.
6 October 2025
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Blastoff and Breakthroughs: SpaceX Smashes Records, Mars Life Clue, and More (Oct 4–5, 2025)

Blastoff and Breakthroughs: SpaceX Smashes Records, Mars Life Clue, and More (Oct 4–5, 2025)

Key Facts Major Launches and Missions SpaceX’s relentless launch pace hit a new high this weekend. On Oct. 3, a Falcon 9 rocket roared off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit space.com. This mission marked SpaceX’s 125th Falcon 9 flight of the year, already a record-setting cadence, and the booster successfully landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship ~8 minutes later space.com. The reused booster (serial B1097) completed its second flight space.com. Starlink deployment was confirmed about an hour after liftoff, adding to SpaceX’s ever-growing internet constellation space.com. With over 8,500
5 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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SpaceX Starship’s Epic Test Flight Stuns the World – What It Means for Moon, Mars, and Beyond

SpaceX Starship’s Epic Test Flight Stuns the World – What It Means for Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Starship’s Latest Test: Breaking New Ground in South Texas SpaceX’s Starship program notched a dramatic success on August 26, 2025, when the giant Starship rocket aced its 10th flight test from the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas space.com. At 7:30 p.m. ET that day, the 40-story vehicle thundered off the pad on 33 Raptor engines, delivering a ground-shaking 16 million pounds of thrust – more than twice the power of NASA’s Saturn V or SLS moon rockets spaceflightnow.com. SpaceX employees cheered as the booster propelled the Starship upper stage toward space, marking the first time in over a
19 September 2025
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