UC Berkeley mission will send satellites to Mars at a fraction of traditional costs

by Staff, Bay City News August 25, 2021August 24, 2021

A pair of inexpensive EscaPADE satellites designed at UC Berkeley should arrive at Mars in 2026, where they will circle the planet in complementary orbits to help scientists understand how Mars’ atmosphere escaped into space. (Image courtesy of Robert Lillis/UC Berkeley)

NASA has greenlighted a mission by University of California at Berkeley to put two satellites into orbit around Mars, university officials said this week.

Dubbed EscaPADE — Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers — the mission would launch in October 2024 and be in orbit in 2026.

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