Europa Clipper — launch
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Europa Clipper is a NASA mission launched on October 14, 2024 to investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The spacecraft is designed to orbit Jupiter and make repeated close flybys of Europa, using instruments to study its ice shell, underlying ocean, composition and geology. The investigation will assess whether Europa has environments that could support life; it is not a mission to detect life directly.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper. Related NASA reference: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/.
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Orbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Mission
- Europa Clipper
- Organization
- SpaceX
- Vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- Location
- NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Country
- US
- Outcome
- Successful
Sources and attribution
- Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Europa Clipper (opens in a new tab) — Factual synthesis based on the cited Wikipedia and NASA pages; original editorial wording. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — Europa Clipper (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — Europa Clipper (opens in a new tab)