Spacecraft · tracked live
ESCAPADE Gold
The twin of Blue, on the same flight. Both wait at the Earth-Sun L2 point until an engine burn in November 2026 sends them to Mars on an eleven-month cruise; once there they will fly the same orbit at different heights, so that their separation grows and they can sample distant parts of the Martian magnetosphere at the same instant.
- Agency
- NASA / UC Berkeley
- Launched
- 2025-11-13 - still working
- From the Sun
- 150,156,264 km (-38,991 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 1,807,311 km (-36,843 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 6 s
- Travelling at
- 29.5 km/s
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.