Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
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Launch Window
Oct. 14, 2024, 4:05 p.m. - Oct. 14, 2024, 4:06 p.m.
Oct. 14, 2024, 4:05 p.m. - Oct. 14, 2024, 4:06 p.m.
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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Europa Clipper acquisition of signal with good telemetry.
Spacecraft separation.
Liftoff.
Official Webcast by NASA has started
Tweaked T-0.
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.
See DetailsThe Falcon Heavy side booster B1065 for this launch has been expended.
Strap-On Booster will be expended.The Falcon Heavy side booster B1064 for this launch has been expended.
Strap-On Booster will be expended.The Falcon Heavy center core B1089 for this launch has been expended.
Core will be expended.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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