flown missionSuccess
Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper
SpaceXLaunch Complex 39A — Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Europa Clipper
- Type
- Planetary Science
- Target orbit
- Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)
- Weather probability
- 95% go
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
- Weather concerns
- Cumulus Cloud Rule
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Family
- Falcon
- Variant
- Heavy
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
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launch site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.6082, -80.6043