The Europa Clipper mission, NASA's largest planetary science spacecraft to date, aims to determine if Jupiter's moon Europa ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper - one of the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore one of the great mysteries of our solar system. Jon Excell reports. A SpaceX ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

An illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft approaching Jupiter’s moon Europa. The spacecraft, which is planned to launch in 2024, will carry an ice-penetrating radar instrument ...

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 ...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's ...

Viavi Solutions Inc. VIAV recently revealed its key contribution to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The company is providing a precision order sorting filter for the spacecraft’s Mapping ...