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.
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.
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 9
Consecutive Success 9
Maiden Flight 2018-02-06
Launch Failures 0
Core
Serial Unknown FH
Status N/A
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
2023-10-11T04:55:49+0000
Added tentative launch time and date.
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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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