ESCAPADE: A Twin-Spacecraft Simplex Mission to Unveil Mars' Unique Hybrid Magnetosphere

Robert J. Lillis (1) , Shannon Curry (1) , Yingjuan Ma (2) , David Curtis (1) , Ellen Taylor (1) , Sasha Courtade (1) , Jeffrey Parker (3) , T. Hara (1) , J.G. Luhmann (1) , Aroh Barjatya (4) , Davin Larson (1) , Roberto Livi (1) , Phyllis L Whittlesey (1) , Ronan Modolo (5) , Yuki Harada (6) , Christopher M. Fowler (1) , Shaosui Xu (1) , David A. Brain (7) , Paul Withers (8) , Edward Thiemann (7) , Ehson Mosleh (9) , Christophe Mandy (9)

1 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
2 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
3 Advanced Space LLC
4 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
5 HELIOS - LATMOS
6 Kyoto University
7 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]
8 Department of Astronomy [Boston]
9 Rocket Lab USA

Can you really send two capable scientific spacecraft to Mars for <$80 million? ESCAPADE, launching in 2024, will test this hypothesis!

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Robert J. Lillis, Shannon Curry, Yingjuan Ma, David Curtis, Ellen Taylor, et al.. ESCAPADE: A Twin-Spacecraft Simplex Mission to Unveil Mars' Unique Hybrid Magnetosphere. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Mar 2022, he Woodlands, Texas, United States. ⟨insu-03746978⟩