That launch, which is expected to take place late this month or in November, will send NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \n Blue Origin rolls the first stage of its powerful New Glenn rocket to the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 8, 2025. (Image credit: Blue Origin)<\/p>\n New Glenn stands about 320 feet tall (98 meters) when fully stacked. Like SpaceX’s Falcon 9<\/a> and Falcon Heavy rockets, the Blue Origin<\/a> launcher features a reusable first stage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Glenn debuted this past January<\/a> on a test flight that reached orbit as planned. Blue Origin tried to land the first stage on a ship at sea after liftoff that day but came up short.<\/p>\n Mission number two is an operational flight: It will send the two ESCAPADE (“Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers”) orbiters rocketing toward the Red Planet, where they will study the Martian atmosphere<\/a> and how it is affected by the solar wind<\/a> and space weather<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those two probes \u2014 which are named Blue and Gold, and were built by the California-based company Rocket Lab<\/a> \u2014 arrived on Florida’s Space Coast on Sept. 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wednesday was a big day for Blue Origin. That same morning, the company sent six people to and from suborbital space on its New Shepard<\/a> vehicle.<\/p>\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jprYKMhdndF49BvCoRAa6Z.jpg\")
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