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Watch live: SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's ocean moon

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper on a mission to Jupiter's ocean moon. Liftoff from launch complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is sche...

đź”´FULL REPLAY: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launches NASA's Europa Clipper Mission

Europa Clipper is a NASA mission to study Europa, one of Jupiter's four Galilean moons through a series of flybys while in Jupiter's orbit. Window Opens: October 14th at 12:05:45PM EDT (16:05:45 UTC)...

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Europa Clipper

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Overview

Destination: Heliocentric N/A
Mission: Planetary Science

Heliocentric N/A Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 95%
B1064 - Atlantic Ocean B1065 - Atlantic Ocean B1089 - Atlantic Ocean

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.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 14, 2024, 5:20 p.m.

Europa Clipper acquisition of signal with good telemetry.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 14, 2024, 5:08 p.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 14, 2024, 4:06 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Oct. 14, 2024, 3 p.m.

Official Webcast by NASA has started


Cosmic_Penguin • Oct. 13, 2024, 10:45 p.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Falcon Heavy

Family:
Configuration: Heavy

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    12.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    ―
  • Launch Mass
    1400.0 T
  • Thrust
    22819.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon Heavy
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    Heavy
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Falcon Heavy
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $90000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    63800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    26700.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    ―

Booster Info


B1064

Status: Expended


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 1, 2022
Last Flight: October 14, 2024
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1064 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon Heavy side booster B1064 for this launch has been expended.

Strap-On Booster will be expended.

B1065

Status: Expended


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 1, 2022
Last Flight: October 14, 2024
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1065 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon Heavy side booster B1065 for this launch has been expended.

Strap-On Booster will be expended.

B1089


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: October 14, 2024
Last Flight: October 14, 2024
Flights: 1

Landing Information

The Falcon Heavy center core B1089 for this launch has been expended.

Core will be expended.

SpaceX

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 433 Failures: 12 Pending: 112

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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