Blue Origin is set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon.

The heavy-lift rocket is aiming for its second ever liftoff, targeting launch during a window that runs from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36.

“We just completed our launch readiness review this morning. We are go for launch across the board,” said Laura Maginnis, Blue Origin New Glenn vice president of mission management, on a Saturday media call.

The payload is a pair of satellites built by fellow aerospace company Rocket Lab for NASA and the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory for the mission named ESCAPADE, which stands for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The twin spa

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