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New Glenn NG-2 ESCAPADE

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New Glenn NG-2 Live: ESCAPADE to Mars and a Booster Landing Try

Live coverage of Blue Origin's second New Glenn launch, NG-2, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft toward Mars along with a Viasat…

Published 9 Nov 2025

Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker / Public domain

ESCAPADE (New Glenn NG-2)

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New Glenn NG-2 Countdown: ESCAPADE Launch and Booster Landing Plan

Livestream coverage of the countdown for NG-2, the second New Glenn flight, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral.

Published 13 Nov 2025

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Falcon Heavy Test Flight

Three cores, 27 engines and a Roadster

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On 6 February 2018 SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy for the first time from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Tesla Roadster instead of a customer satellite. Both side boosters landed side by side at Cape Canaveral, and the Roadster went into an orbit around the Sun that crosses the orbit of Mars.

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Falcon Heavy’s First Flight: Tesla Roadster and Booster Landings

Replay of the first Falcon Heavy launch on Feb.

Published 6 Feb 2023

Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

Curiosity

A car-sized rover lowered on cables to Gale Crater

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NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed in Gale Crater on 5 August 2012 (Pacific time) after a flight of about 36 weeks. It was the largest rover sent to Mars at the time, and it touched down by being lowered on cables from a rocket-powered descent stage, a manoeuvre called the sky crane.

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Curiosity’s Mars Landing: Sky Crane, Touchdown and First Images

NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed on Mars after a 36-week flight.

Published 6 Aug 2012
Curiosity’s Mars Landing: Entry, Descent and Sky Crane at JPL

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shares footage of mission control as Curiosity landed on Mars on the evening of Aug.

Published 6 Aug 2012
Curiosity at 14: Keeping a Mars Rover Running by Remote Control

Curiosity was built for a mission of about two years and has been on Mars for fourteen.

Published 1 Nov 2026

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain (US government work)

Perseverance

Landing in Jezero Crater to look for ancient life

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NASA's Perseverance rover launched on an Atlas V on 30 July 2020 and landed in Jezero Crater, the bed of an ancient lake, on 18 February 2021. It carries a drill that collects rock cores in sample tubes, an instrument that makes oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and the Ingenuity helicopter.

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Perseverance: Seven Minutes From Mars Atmosphere to Touchdown

NASA/JPL animations show key events in entry, descent and landing for the Perseverance rover, due to land on Mars on February 18, 2021.

Published 22 Dec 2020
Perseverance: Inside JPL Before the Seven Minutes of Terror

Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober tours NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ahead of the Perseverance landing on Mars, explaining the why, where, how, what and who of the mission.

Published 15 Feb 2021
Perseverance Landing on Mars: Descent Call-Outs and Real Footage

NASA's official video combines real footage from the rover's entry, descent and landing cameras with mission control call-outs from Perseverance's landing in Jezero Crater on Feb.

Published 22 Feb 2021
Perseverance Landing Footage: Parachute to Sky Crane Touchdown

NASA released first-of-its-kind footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, showing the final minutes of the descent up to touchdown.

Published 23 Feb 2021