NASA Europa Clipper's Journey to Explore Jupiter's Moon
🛰️NASA's Europa Clipper, supported by Aerospace experts and validated through Aerospace testbeds, has embarked on a groundbreaking journey to explore Jupiter's moon Europa to investigate its icy shell, hidden ocean and potential for life. The spacecraft will enter the Jovian system in 2030 and conduct roughly 50 close flybys of Europa.
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Europa Clipper’s three main science objectives are to determine the thickness of the moon’s icy shell and its interactions with the ocean below, to investigate its composition, and to characterize its geology. The mission’s detailed exploration of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.
Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, JPL leads the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. APL designed the main spacecraft body in collaboration with JPL and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy, managed the launch service for the Europa Clipper spacecraft.
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Release Date: Dec. 23, 2025
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