The Europa Clipper launched Monday afternoon aboard ... the Clipper to verify its health as it spread its massive solar arrays to power itself onward. Ahead of the Clipper is a 1.8 billion-mile ...

Europa Clipper will be the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. The craft is outfitted with large solar arrays that will serve as the primary power source for the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational ... practice for spacecraft venturing to the far reaches of our solar system. For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft ... extending 100 feet with its solar arrays. These large arrays are necessary to power the spacecraft as it travels near Jupiter, far from the Sun’s energy.