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Europa Clipper Update Briefing
Online Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
NASA will hold a media teleconference to provide an update on Europa Clipper, a mission that will study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could be hospitable to life. The teleconference will occur after a key decision point meeting earlier that day regarding next steps for the mission.
Participants in the teleconference include:
- Nicola Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Laurie Leshin, center director, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Curt Niebur, Europa Clipper program scientist, NASA Headquarters
- Jordan Evans, Europa Clipper project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Updates
LL2 • Sept. 9, 2024, 8 p.m.
Official Webcast by NASA Video has started
hitura-nobad • Sept. 6, 2024, 6:48 p.m.
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Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 14, 2024, 4:06 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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Europa Clipper is the first dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. Mission is developed by NASA and comprises of an orbiter spacecraft, which, while in orbit around Jupiter, will perform numerous flybys over Europa. Europa Clipper payload suit included high-resolution cameras and spectrometers for imaging Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice-penetrating radar to search for subsurface water, and a magnetometer and gravity measurements to measure the moon's magnetic field and unlock clues about its ocean and deep interior.
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