Fictiv has produced parts for Heliospace that will be used on NASA's Europa Clipper mission.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is scheduled to launch in October 2024 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is slated to launch next year and is due to be inserted into Jupiter orbit in 2030 to investigate whether Europa has the ingredients necessary for life.
JPL is building the Europa Clipper mission at the same time as it is building the Mars Sample Return mission.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, leads development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
NASA awarded SpaceX a Falcon Heavy contract for the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter in 2024 valued at $178,000,000.
The Europa Clipper mission budget increased by $703,000,000 to approximately $5,000,000,000 to accommodate COVID-19 impacts and higher anticipated Phase E operations costs.
NASA awarded SpaceX a contract in July for the launch of the Europa Clipper mission, which is scheduled for 2024.
The Europa Clipper mission will launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
NASA is currently procuring a commercial launch vehicle for the Europa Clipper mission due to concerns over using SLS and potential loading issues.
The Europa Clipper mission reported a COVID-19-related cost increase of $97,000,000.
Language in the fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill allowed NASA to use an alternative launch vehicle for the Europa Clipper mission if the SLS vehicle was not available or torsional loading analysis found the spacecraft incompatible with SLS.
The White House is asking Congress to remove language from a fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill that would direct NASA to launch the Europa Clipper mission on the Space Launch System.
The House provides $403,500,000 for the Europa Clipper mission, matching NASA’s requested amount.
The House CJS bill directs $403,500,000 for the Europa Clipper mission, the same amount as NASA requested.
NASA currently expects to use Mobile Launcher 1 for the first three Artemis missions and potentially for the Europa Clipper mission before retiring it as operations shift to SLS Block 1B and ML-2.
The omnibus requires NASA to launch the Europa Clipper mission on a Space Launch System vehicle by 2025.
The omnibus allocates $592,600,000 for the Europa Clipper mission.
The CJS report is silent on a specific funding level for the Europa Clipper mission while the House bill provides $592,600,000 for the mission.