The spacecraft was launched at 17:06 BST on Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy ...
Everything about the Europa Clipper mission is huge. Sent to investigate the ice-covered and perhaps habitable second moon of Jupiter, it is qualified by NASA as a Large Strategic Science Mission, ...
The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa — much closer than the few previous visitors.
SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday with the full OK from the Federal Aviation Administration weeks after ...
It will take Europa Clipper 5½ years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys.
The Starlink 10-10 mission came on the heels of SpaceX's lunchtime Monday launch of a triple-core Falcon Heavy from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launched by SpaceX Falcon Heavy, embarks on a six-year journey to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, utilizing gravity assists and aiming to study its icy subsurface ocean.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a nearly six-year mission to Jupiter to see ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous ...
The U.S. space agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX ...