Engineers and technicians use a crane to lift the core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft in the High Bay 1 clean room of JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The […]
Europa Clipper
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Main Body Of Europa Clipper Astrobiology Spacecraft Completed
The agency’s mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft. The main body of NASA’s Europa Clipper […]
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Europa Clipper's Plasma Instrument For Magnetic Sounding
Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA’s Europa Clipper is the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS). Scientists will use PIMS to study the characteristics of plasma around […]
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NASA Seeks New Options for Science Instrument on Europa Clipper
NASA has decided to replace the current magnetometer on the upcoming Europa Clipper mission with a less complex instrument. The Europa Clipper mission, launching in the 2020s, will be the […]
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Using Antarctica To Prepare For A Mission To Europa
Four bleary-eyed men wearing grease-smeared tan jackets or red parkas emerge from what first appears to be a leftover prop from a Mad Max film. Nine silver smokestacks tower above […]