The spacecraft will take a year to adjust its orbit around Jupiter, fine-tuning its trajectory to bring it close enough to Europa for the first of nearly 50 close flybys, according to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Europa Clipper will...
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is the first focused exploration of an ocean world, with the main goal of assessing the habitability of Jupiter’s
To get to Jupiter, the Clipper will first fly past Mars on March 1, using the red planet's gravity to boost its speed and bend the trajectory to send the probe back toward Earth for another gravity-assist flyby in December 2026. That will finally put the Clipper on course for Jupiter....
Europa Clipper was sent on an inter-planetary trajectory to begin a nearly six-year mission to its namesake moon. Liftoff of the mission from Launch Complex 39A happened at 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 UTC). This Falcon Heavy mission was a unique circumstance that req...
Because Europa Clipper is designed to execute multiple flybys of Europa instead of orbiting this moon, it is important that the spacecraft trajectory allows sufficient opportunities to examine every subcategory of landform. Most landforms, such as ridges, dilational bands, small impact features, chao...
This paper will present several tour tools techniques developed for the design of the Europa Clipper flyby trajectory. In particular, the paper will describe different ways to perform fast line-of-apsides rotations; a new approach to improve the coverage of Europa's trailing and leading edges, ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper is set for a launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa, with extensive pre-launch testing completed to ensure its readiness for the extreme conditions of space. The mission will use gravitational assists to reach Jupiter by 2030, conducting close flybys of Europa to study its ...
such as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy or United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy. These vehicles aren't as powerful as SLS is expected to be, so going the commercial route would require a different trajectory for Clipper — a roundabout one that employs planetary "gravity assists" and features a ...
NASA's Europa Multiple Flyby Mission (EMFM, formerly Europa Clipper) is slated to visit the icy moon in a timeframe near the year 2022 to study the habitability of Europa. CubeSats carried along by the primary mission can supplement the measurements made, at a relatively low cost, and with...
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 know it. “This is the start of our journey of discovery,” said Jenny Kampmeier, a sc...