NASA Mini-Probes Lose Ride To Mars

Artist's concept of EscaPADE.
Credit: UC Berkeley image courtesy of Robert Lillis.
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is removing a planned secondary payload from the August 2022 launch of its Psyche asteroid probe, leaving a pair of small satellites without a piggyback ride to Mars. The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission was slated to ride aboard a SpaceX...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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