NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, designed to study Jupiter’s moon Europa, is currently on a six-year journey through the solar ...

Europa Clipper could also help reveal whether there ... So, the mission team designed a trajectory that will dip the spacecraft in and out of the hazardous radiation. "We fly in, we get the ...

This model is configured with the shorter, 14-meter Delta 4 payload fairing (PLF) that would encapsulate Europa Clipper. The “Jupiter Direct” trajectory is performance-challenging for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...