N ASA's Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two science instruments have deployed hardware ...

After ten years of development and construction, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is just months away from departing Earth on ...

In short order, they pulled together a full list of Europa Clipper’s parts. “We knew all of the MOSFETs that we had on the spacecraft and in instruments. We then replicated the test results ...

The close flyby offers a bonus opportunity for mission scientists, who will test their radar instrument and thermal imager. Europa Clipper will be closest to the Red Planet at 12:57 p.m. EST ...

Plus, during its closest approach, the Europa Clipper's radar instrument will also be tested to make sure it is operating as expected. The probe's radar antennas are so massive that they could not ...

Soon, they may have answers. In October, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send Europa Clipper, a satellite orbiter with nine analytical instruments, to Europa to study its ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has made significant progress ... the mission will employ sophisticated data models and inputs from other instruments onboard. Europa's Internal Structure and ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

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Rayme Traub placed his daughter’s name onto the interior vault of Europa Clipper, a NASA probe that will eventually soar to Jupiter. While members of the public could get their names onto a ...