NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Up And Away

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft with solar arrays fully deployed in orbit around Jupiter. Europa Clipper’s solar arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.

Credit: NASA
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, a key milestone in the agency’s long-running effort to verify a potentially habitable environment beyond the Earth for the first time. The large, solar-powered spacecraft bound for Jupiter and its moon...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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