Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this fall.
NASA's twin spacecrafts of its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, known as ESCAPADE, returned from California to Florida last Tuesday after NASA halted its initial attempted launch last year, the U.S. space agency announced Monday.
ESCAPADE arrived in Titusville at Florida's Astrotech Space Operations facility from California at NASA's rocket lab production complex in Long Beach.
NASA in 2023 commissioned the private space launch company Blue Origin to launch a government-sanctioned mission to study the magnetosphere of Mars.
The two crafts are destined to orbit Mars part of NASA's growing arsenal constructed to expand life in space amid recent discoveries of scientific life on Mars.
