Could our solar system host a second celestial body capable of supporting life beyond Earth? NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched today from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to find out. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the spacecraft successfully launched after the mission was delayed last week due to Hurricane Milton. The robotic, solar-powered craft is expected to enter Jupiter’s orbit in 2030, after covering a distance of 2.9 billion kilometers on a journey that will take 5.5 years. The Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has built for a planetary mission: it’s 30.5 meters long and 17.6 meters wide when its antennas and solar panels are fully deployed – that’s bigger than a basketball court. It weighs about 6 tons. Its mission is to determine if one of Jupiter’s moons, the […]
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