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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully made its way to orbit for the second time on Nov. 13, 2025. Although the second launch is never as flashy as the first, this mission is still significant in several ways.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launched NASA's ESCAPADE mission, a low-cost project using twin satellites to study Mars's atmosphere and advance planetary exploration.

Blue Origin successfully launched NASA’s twin Mars orbiters on the New Glenn rocket and achieved its first booster landing, marking a major milestone for the company’s lunar and deep-space ambitions.

The Nov. 13 launch of two Mars probes atop Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket was a big deal for a variety of reasons. Here's a brief rundown.

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket launched for the second time ever today (Nov. 13), sending NASA's twin Mars ESCAPADE probes aloft —and acing an epic booster landing at sea.

An ecstatic Bezos watched the action from Launch Control

A new analysis of data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals that the majority of the Red Planet's dark "slope streaks" did not form as most researchers previously assumed.

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, mission will help unleash: one where small, low-cost spacecraft enable researchers to learn rapidly, iterate, and advance technology and science.