""There are also two name plates (one in blue and one in gold) on each spacecraft listing Rocket Lab team members who've contributed to the mission, making it possible to get to Mars," said McLaurin. Mounted on the solar panels, the plaques use shading to also display the Latin initials (NSHO) of the Rocket Lab motto and form the company's logo. Despite their diminutive size, each plate appears to include more than 200 names, including founder, president, and CEO Peter Beck."
""ESCAPADE also has its own set of colors, or rather colorful patches. The main mission logo depicts the twin spacecraft in orbit around Mars with the names of the primary partners listed along its border, including UCB-SSL (University of California, Berkeley-Space Science Laboratory); RL (Rocket Lab); ERAU (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, which designed and built the langmuir probe, one of the mission's science instruments); AdvSp (Advanced Space, which oversaw mission design and trajectory optimization); and NASA-GSFC (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).""
The ESCAPADE mission targets Mars' climate history and the processes behind the loss of conditions that once supported liquid water, potential oceans, and possible surface life. Two twin spacecraft carry kiwi-adorned plates and two additional name plates on each craft listing Rocket Lab contributors; the solar-panel-mounted plaques use shading to display the Latin initials NSHO and form the company logo. Each plate appears to include over 200 names, including founder Peter Beck. ESCAPADE features colorful mission patches and a main logo showing the twins in Martian orbit and listing partners UCB-SSL, Rocket Lab, ERAU, Advanced Space, and NASA-GSFC. Rocket Lab designed a blue-and-gold insignia, while Blue Origin's NG-2 patch uses orange hues to represent Mars.
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