Intense Solar Storm Shifts ESCAPADE Launch

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched on Nov. 13, 2025! But it wasn’t without any hiccups — or maybe a series of violent burps? — from the Sun! ☀️🌬️ The launch of ESCAPADE, our next mission to Mars, was delayed by a day due to the most powerful geomagnetic storm of 2025. The storm was caused by multiple flares and eruptions known as coronal mass ejections heading toward Earth. With the help of NASA satellites and models, the team could monitor when the storm subsided and by the following day, it was safe to launch. Music credit: "Machine Learning” by Ben Niblett and Jon Cotton [PRS] from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer: Lacey Young (eMITS) Videographer: John Sackman (eMITS), Chris Stevens (eMITS) Writer: Erin Mahoney (Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.), Abbey Interrante (NCS), Joy Ng (eMITS) Talent: Joe Westlake (NASA) Additional Video and Animations: Blue Origin Rocket Lab Storyblocks Sound Effects: Pixabay This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14925. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14925. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/ If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · X http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc