# ESCAPADE Gold

*Spacecraft*

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.

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| --- | --- |
| Agency | NASA / UC Berkeley |
| Launched | 2025-11-13 - still working |
| From the Sun | 151,110,444 km (-17,425 km/d) |
| From the Earth | 2,468,855 km (-56 km/d) |
| A signal takes | 8 s |
| Travelling at | 29.6 km/s |

Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of 2026-09-05, changing at the rate given beside each. The interpolation itself is good to a few kilometres; what ages these figures is the date, not the arithmetic.

## Elsewhere

- On the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?world=solar-system&focus=escapade-gold
- The mission's own page: https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu/
- This object as a page: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/escapade-gold/
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt