ESCAPADE is a twin-spacecraft Mars mission consisting of two spacecraft built by Rocket Lab and to be operated for NASA by the University of California, Berkeley.
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The ESCAPADE mission name is an acronym for Escape, Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, and the mission architecture uses two small satellites named Blue and Gold built by Rocket Lab for the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory under a NASA program aimed at developing lower-cost, fast-track planetary missions.
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ESCAPADE exemplifies an approach to planetary science using smaller, lower-cost spacecraft developed through streamlined NASA programs.