News Archive / Tagged: Europa Clipper

• Europa Clipper mission to launch atop a Falcon Heavy

  Michael McCabeJuly 28th, 2021

  After years of debating on a launch vehicle Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for the mission to Jupiter’s icy moon.

• Finding life on Europa requires drilling to its subsurface ocean

  Laurel KornfeldJuly 24th, 2021

  A future mission seeking signs of life on Jupiter's moon Europa will likely require drilling into its global subsurface ocean, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

• Prototype high-gain antenna being tested for Europa Clipper

  Laurel KornfeldApril 3rd, 2019

  A prototype high-gain antenna that will transmit data for NASA's Europa Clipper mission is being tested at an indoor electromagnetic testing facility.

• Hubble, Galileo data provide more evidence of plumes over Europa

  Bart LeahyMay 15th, 2018

  After reviewing data from a previous mission to the Jovian system, scientists found evidence of a plume erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa, which NASA said indicates that the moon's subsurface ocean may indeed be venting water vapor through cracks in its icy surface.

• NASA’s Jupiter moon mission named ‘Europa Clipper’

  Jim SharkeyMarch 12th, 2017

  NASA announced on Thursday, March 9, that the space agency's upcoming mission to study the habitability of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa will be named the "Europa Clipper". The name harkens back to the wooden clipper ships that sailed Earth's oceans in the 19th century.

• Goals for NASA’s proposed Europa Lander begin to crystallize

  Curt GodwinFebruary 9th, 2017

  Members of a NASA Science Definition Team (SDT) recently completed a report on the science value for a proposed Europa lander and gave design recommendations for the notional explorer. The search for evidence life on the icy moon is near the top of the list.

• Let’s send a private mission to Europa, expert says

  Tomasz NowakowskiFebruary 11th, 2015

  Jupiter’s icy moon Europa puzzles astrobiologists and sparks the imagination of those interested in extraterrestrial life. It is believed that the moon has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, where life could possibly be similar to microbial life forms on Earth. The likely presence of liquid water has ignited persisting calls to send a probe […]

• Mission to Europa included in proposed NASA budget

  Joe LatrellFebruary 4th, 2015

  NASA’s chief financial officer David Radzanowski had requested $30 million over the next year to start work on a mission to the Jovian (one of four closest satellites of the gas giant Jupiter) moon Europa. His request was granted in the latest White House Space and Sciences budget. The proposed budget covers everything from the Commercial Crew […]

• House Appropriations Committee raises NASA budget

  Collin SkocikMay 10th, 2014

  On Thursday, May 8th, 2014, the House Appropriations Committee voted to give NASA $19.9 billion for FY 2015. This was about $439 million more than the White House had asked for. The Committee criticized President Obama for consistently asking for less money than what was needed to meet the space agency’s goals. A refrain which has been […]

• Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus

  NASAMay 9th, 2014

  NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured its first-ever image of the pale blue ice-giant planet Uranus in the distance beyond Saturn’s rings.