The Europa Clipper launched Monday afternoon aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which is designed to help propel the spacecraft on a six-year journey to reach its namesake moon, an icy ocean world.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The announcement this week was the culmination of years of work, study, and analysis, and paves the way for interesting discoveries for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission which already includes ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...