NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper, an unmanned interplanetary spacecraft, on a mission to study the massive ...
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NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched Monday afternoon from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s ...
Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The ...
Everything about the Europa Clipper mission is huge. Sent to investigate the ice-covered and perhaps habitable second moon of ...
It will take Europa Clipper 5½ years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys.
About the size of a basketball court with its solar wings unfurled, Clipper will swing past Mars and then Earth on its way to Jupiter for gravity assists. The nearly 13,000-pound (5,700-kilogram) ...