NASA Sets Coverage for Europa Clipper Launch to Jupiter Moon

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-europa-clipper-launch-to-jupiter-moon/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn44 On Thursday, Oct. 10, at 12:31 p.m. EDT, the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the solar system’s most promising, potentially habitable environments. After an approximately 1.8-billion-mile journey, the Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, where the spacecraft will conduct a detailed survey of Europa to determine whether the icy world could have conditions suitable for life. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. It carries nine instruments and a gravity experiment that will investigate an ocean beneath Europa’s surface, which scientists believe contains twice as much liquid water as Earth’s oceans.