$66,734,963
to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE
ESCAPE AND PLASMA ACCELERATION AND DYNAMICS EXPLORERS (ESCAPADE) MISSION -.PHASE A CONCEPT STUDY.
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What the model surfaced from this award
Latest obligation on the 2019 ESCAPADE mission concept study, advancing NASA's understanding of solar wind interaction with planetary magnetospheres.
ESCAPADE is a dual-spacecraft mission to Mars designed to measure plasma escape and atmospheric loss, critical for understanding planetary habitability and informing future human exploration.
UC Berkeley leads science definition; obligations flow to spacecraft subsystem vendors, instrument manufacturers, and mission operations contractors over the extended development timeline.
Mars science missions are a key arena of U.S.-China space competition; ESCAPADE advances U.S. capability to characterize atmospheric processes relevant to long-term human presence.
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