Europa Clipper
Europa Clipper
NASA · launched 14 October 2024
Europa Clipper is a NASA spacecraft launched on 14 October 2024 from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon Heavy. It will orbit Jupiter and fly past Europa dozens of times to look for a subsurface ocean, without settling into orbit around the moon itself.
The cruise uses two gravity assists: Mars on 1 March 2025, then Earth on 3 December 2026. Jupiter orbit insertion is planned for 11 April 2030. The prime mission runs about four years, with 49 Europa flybys, and ends in September 2034 with a directed impact on Ganymede.
The rose track is the JPL Horizons ephemeris, one point every five days, from the day after launch through 2 September 2034.
Made by Laurent Remond
