SLS is still the mandated launch vehicle for Europa Clipper, but also remains a source of disagreement between the Trump Administration and Congress. Congress mostly recently retained the SLS ...

Right now, Europa Clipper is on track to meet its targeted 2022-2025 launch window to Jupiter, riding atop a Block 1 SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will fly with an Interim Cryogenic ...

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 ...

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The mission, called Europa Clipper, will see a spacecraft sent to Europa and remain in orbit around the moon for several years. The mission will attempt to answer many questions about Europa ...

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 ...

The mission will use the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, marking the first crewed Moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, scheduled for 2025 ...

Soon, they may have answers. In October, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send Europa Clipper, a satellite orbiter with nine analytical instruments, to Europa to study its ...

Currently, two astrobiology missions are headed for Europa: NASA's Europa Clipper mission and the ESA's JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE). The former will arrive by 2030 and will begin observing ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, designed to explore the icy moon Europa, is set to launch on October 10, 2024. The mission aims to investigate whether the moon, believed to have a subsurface ...

With an array of scientific instruments, Europa Clipper will study the water, energy, and chemistry present on the moon. Europa Clipper will use cameras that detect visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ...