A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket got the Clipper off-Earth, separating from the spacecraft an hour after launch. The Clipper is ...
Europa Clipper is the biggest interplanetary spacecraft that NASA has ever built. At launch, it will weigh about 12,500 pounds — nearly half of that is propellant. When unfurled, its solar panels will ...
NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest ...
Europa Clipper will serve as NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system, and it aims to determine whether the moon could be habitable for life as we ...
A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has lifted off. NASA’s ...