⏱️150,000 hours 🛣️ 2,574 miles 🚚 38 hours That’s what it took to design, build, test, & deliver our two ESCAPADE spacecraft from our Long Beach facility to Kennedy Space Center. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration & UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab's ESCAPADE mission will be the first dual-spacecraft to study Mars’ magnetosphere, unlocking insights into atmospheric escape and paving the way for future human exploration. Next stop: Mars. 🛰️🔴🛰️ 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/46h

Replacing the Mars Relay Network isn’t just about science, it’s about leadership. NASA’s current relay network is aging. To enable astronauts, rovers, and researchers to stay connected, we need a resilient, high-bandwidth system built for the future. Rocket Lab’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter delivers exactly that: a modern, commercial backbone to support every mission on Mars—NASA, academia, and commercial explorers alike. The U.S. leads when it builds the infrastructure that others depend on