The NASA-funded mission will launch two twin spacecraft to explore Mars' magnetosphere and how it interacts with solar wind.
A pair of spacecraft is undergoing final testing before a roughly 230 million mile journey to explore the Red Planet. This week, Rocket Lab announced that the two spacecraft it is building for NASA’s EscaPADE mission have gone into the system integration phase in preparation for launch in 2024, the company wrote. The dual-spacecraft mission will make its way to Mars to study the planet’s magnetosphere as part of NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration program.
The integration process will be followed by a test campaign, including vibration, thermal vacuum, and electromagnetic compatibility testing. Rocket Lab also carried out compatibility tests between the spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network, an array of giant radio antennas that the space agency uses to communicate with its interplanetary missions.
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