So, the mission team designed a trajectory that will dip the ... For now, however, all eyes are on Europa Clipper’s upcoming launch toward its icy moon target and its tantalizing subsurface ...

The “Jupiter Direct” trajectory is performance-challenging ... SLS is still the mandated launch vehicle for Europa Clipper, but also remains a source of disagreement between the Trump ...

However, from a scientific reality, SLS is the only launch vehicle capable of launching Europa Clipper into a direct insertion trajectory to Jupiter, foregoing multiple gravity assist flybys of ...

Europa Clipper: NASA plans for launch life-searching mission to Jupiter ... Ahead of the spacecraft is a 1.8 billion-mile journey to Europa on a trajectory taking it past Mars and then Earth ...

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's ...