To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

On Oct. 14, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft began a vital mission ... the next major milestone for the spacecraft will be a flyby of Mars on March 1, 2025. During this maneuver, the spacecraft ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, using star trackers to navigate and ensure a smooth journey to its 2030 destination.

However, the Galileo data will go a long way towards allowing scientist to finalize and tweak the flyby altitudes, locations, and trajectories Europa Clipper will follow during its in-situ ...

A year prior to JUICE’s arrival, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will arrive and flyby Europa 32 times—one reason why JUICE is only going to undertake two flybys of that particular icy moon.

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 ...

Europa Clipper will visit Mars' vicinity in March for a gravity assist, before it heads Earthward, and then eventually on a path to visit Europa. According to NASA, the orbiter will travel at ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper - one of the largest and most advanced spacecraft ... after taking a somewhat circuitous 1.8 billion mile route that swings past Mars (later this month, Feb 2025) and then Earth, ...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...