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No spacecraft has yet landed on Europa, although there have been several proposed exploration missions. The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) is a mission to Ganymede launched on 14 April 2023, that will include two flybys of Europa. [29] [30] NASA's Europa Clipper was launched on 14 October 2024. [31] [32]
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. It was launched on October 14, 2024. [15] The spacecraft will use gravity assists from Mars on March 1, 2025, [10] and Earth on December 3, 2026, [11] before arriving at Europa in April 2030. [16]
The NASA mission, called Europa Clipper, aims to figure out whether the Jupiter moon and its ocean could support life. It's the largest interplanetary spacecraft NASA has ever built. The probe is ...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...
NASA launched Europa Clipper on Monday, Oct. 14. The spacecraft will reach Jupiter's moon Europa in 2030 and investigate if life could survive there.
The Europa Orbiter [1] was a planned NASA mission to Jupiter's Moon Europa, that was cancelled in 2002. [2] Its main objectives included determining the presence or absence of a subsurface ocean and identifying candidate sites for future lander missions. [ 3 ]
Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The launch window itself is set to open at 12:06 p.m. ET.
NASA is planning for its spacecraft to conduct 49 close flybys of Europa over a span of three years. Europa's diameter is about 1,940 miles (3,100 km) at its equator, roughly 90% that of our moon.