Europa Clipper
Provider
SpaceX
Rocket
Falcon Heavy
Monday, October 14, 2024
12:06 PM EST
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
5.5 years to Jupiter
Mission Overview
NASA's Europa Clipper mission launched on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, one of the most promising places in our solar system to search for life. The spacecraft will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Europa's ice shell and subsurface ocean.
Europa Clipper Spacecraft
Jupiter Transfer
Mission Highlights
Journey to Jupiter moon
Search for life signs
NASA flagship mission
Fun Facts! 🤔
Europa Clipper will travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Jupiter!
Europa may have twice as much water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
The spacecraft has the largest solar arrays ever built for a planetary mission.
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Mission Statistics
Interplanetary
Maximum Altitude
48,000 km/h
Maximum Speed
2.9 billion km
Distance Traveled
49
Orbits Completed
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