The Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa. ... At launch, with its tanks full of thruster fuel, Europa Clipper will be about 13,000 pounds (6,000 kg), ...

The Europa Clipper remains on track for launch Oct. 10 to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, where a vast ocean lurks beneath an icy crust. Transistor issue resolved, ...

From SpaceX plucking its huge Super Heavy rocket out of the sky to the launch of NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper mission, this year held many amazing advances.

The Europa Clipper has unfurled its solar panels and is on its way to Jupiter, ... Even with the initial boost from Falcon Heavy's thrusters, it'll take over five years for the circa 6,000 kg ...

NASA is troubleshooting a recently revealed problem with the transistors aboard its $5 billion Europa Clipper spacecraft, ... Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal ...

NASA launches Europa Clipper to probe Jupiter moon 05:17. One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on ...

JPL invited journalists to the Europa Clipper, an “orbiter” built to observe one of Jupiter’s many moons, Europa, up close. It’s planned to launch in October.

Europa Clipper is heading to the moon of the same name, which orbits around Jupiter — and that giant planet has an intense environment of radiation around it that is hostile to electronics.

After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month as planned on a $5.2 billion mission to find out ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

Dean chats with Dr. Erin Leonard, planetary geologist and project staff scientist for the Europa Clipper mission. What does it take to send a spacecraft to one of Jupiter's moons? And could there ...

The Europa Clipper remains on track for launch Oct. 10 to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, ... using its thrusters to brake into an initial orbit around the giant planet.