NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean beneath its surface.
NASA's illustration showing the Europa Clipper over Europa. NASA launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft—equipped on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket—from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center ...
Congress relented on that requirement, and in 2021 NASA awarded SpaceX the Falcon Heavy launch contract for only $178 million. This year, Europa Clipper again seemed to be in peril when it ...
Now, the spacecraft has successfully entered orbit and NASA confirmed they received a signal from Europa Clipper about an hour and 10 minutes after launch, which means that mission control is ...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A on NASA's anticipated Europa Clipper mission. The launch ...
Europa Clipper is designed to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030 and spend four years making close flybys of Europa, one of the most promising places in our solar system for the search for life ...
NASA JPL’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter’s icy ocean moon. Oct. 9, 2024 Teams at the Jet Propulsion ...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex ... [+] 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday ...
A NASA mission to explore a Jupiter moon believed ... Clipper mission and its launch over the coast of Florida: Europa Clipper launches from Kennedy Space Center on SpaceX rocket The Europa ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Europa Clipper will take off today. You can watch the launch live during a ...
NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...
To celebrate the successful launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission, the agency's Astrobiology program has released a new ...