Principal Investigator of the ESCAPADE NASA twin satellite Mars mission. Planetary physicist and Associate Director at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab.
Thrilled to announce that our twin ESCAPADE spacecraft are now fully commissioned, with instruments deployed, collecting science data in the Earth's distant magnetotail >2 million km away, a previously unexplored region of space. Image credit: NASA SVS & Yusuke Ebihara.
Status set to: Interplanetary Cruise 😎
Our twin spacecraft for @NASA and @ucbssl's ESCAPADE mission have completed their engine burns and are now cruising near Earth–Sun L2 Lagrange point. Blue and Gold will hang tight here until November when they’ll begin their cruise to
