NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

This gravity assist won't send the Europa Clipper on to Jupiter, however. Instead, that's when it comes back toward Earth.

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper - one of the largest and most advanced spacecraft ... Whilst existing models of the solar system placed the Earth at the centre, Galileo’s observation of moons orbiting Jupiter ...

Upcoming Mars Flyby and Future Plans Currently, Europa Clipper is 53 million miles from Earth, moving at 17 miles per second. On March 1, it will use Mars’ gravity to gain speed and continue its ...

In fact, the initial gravity assist flyby in August 2024 will be of both the Earth and the Moon—the ... A year prior to JUICE’s arrival, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will arrive and flyby ...

Now, Jia and his team believe the craft’s path past Europa ... Europa Clipper into a direct insertion trajectory to Jupiter, foregoing multiple gravity assist flybys of Earth and Venus and ...

But unlike on Earth, all the instruments on Clipper will be exposed to huge amounts of radiation which Prof Schmidt says is a “major concern.” The spacecraft should fly past Europa about 50 ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...