Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper

Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper

Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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Europa Clipper

Europa Clipper is the first dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. Mission is developed by NASA and comprises of an orbiter spacecraft, which, while in orbit around Jupiter, will perform numerous flybys over Europa. Europa Clipper payload suit included high-resolution cameras and spectrometers for imaging Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice-penetrating radar to search for subsurface water, and a magnetometer and gravity measurements to measure the moon's magnetic field and unlock clues about its ocean and deep interior.

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Falcon Heavy


Height 70.00 Meters

Max Stages 3

Mass To GTO 26700 kg

Liftoff Thrust 22819 kN

Diameter 12.20 Meters

Mass To LEO 63800 kg

Liftoff Mass 1400 Tonnes


Launch Success 10

Consecutive Success 10

Maiden Flight 2018-02-06

Launch Failures 0


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Core


Serial B1090

Status active

Flight Proven No

Flights 0


Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type EXP

Location ATL


Strap-On Booster


Serial B1065

Status active

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 5


Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type EXP

Location ATL


Strap-On Booster


Serial B1064

Status active

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 5


Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type EXP

Location ATL


Updates

Cosmic_Penguin

2024-10-06T23:09:00+0000

Delayed due to Hurricane Milton (new tentative launch date per https://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html).

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Cosmic_Penguin

2024-09-05T17:35:00+0000

Targeting NET October 10. (Launch time per https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/launch-windows/)

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-10-11T04:55:49+0000

Added tentative launch time and date.

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Related Events

Europa Clipper News Conference

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NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

Europa Clipper Update Briefing

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NASA will hold a media teleconference to provide an update on Europa Clipper, a mission that will study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could be hospitable to life. The teleconference will occur after a key decision point meeting earlier that day regarding next steps for the mission. Participants in the teleconference include: - Nicola Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters - Laurie Leshin, center director, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Curt Niebur, Europa Clipper program scientist, NASA Headquarters - Jordan Evans, Europa Clipper project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Europa Clipper One Year From Launch Public Talk

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In October 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will begin its 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. It will investigate if an ocean thought to lie beneath Europa’s icy crust could support life. Europa Clipper Mission System Manager Al Cangahula and planetary scientist Kate Craft will talk about the spacecraft’s assembly and preparations for launch, and how Europa Clipper’s detailed exploration of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.

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