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Here’s how it works. NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the agency's biggest-ever interplanetary spacecraft, into space and it's now headed for Jupiter's frozen moon Europa.

Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and determine whether its underground ocean is habitable. The mission launched on Oct. 14, 2024, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian ...

Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped ...

Related: Europa Clipper launch postponed until at least Oct. 13 due to Hurricane Milton Europa Clipper’s launch was originally scheduled for Oct. 10, but that was delayed by Hurricane Milton.

Loosed from our world’s gravitational harbor by SpaceX’s fire-breathing Falcon Heavy rocket, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is now sailing toward the Jupiter system. Its target ...

The solar-powered spacecraft Europa Clipper ascended above clear skies through Earth’s atmosphere on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is expected to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background) will come within 16 miles of the moon's surface. For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send ...

transcript “Ignition. And liftoff! Liftoff of Falcon Heavy with Europa Clipper, unveiling the mysteries of an enormous ocean lurking beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa.” ...

With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA has officially retired a “tremendous amount of risk on the mission ...

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