Blue Origin launches rocket with NASA craft
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Blue Origin's New Glenn booster rocket successfully launched its second-ever trip into space on Thursday to deploy two NASA satellites bound for Mars.
Hitching a ride on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket, NASA's pair of Escapade (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecrafts were launched at at 3:55 p.m. ET Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Blue Origin says it is working with the government to secure additional launch opportunities for the upcoming New Glenn launch of a NASA Mars mission.