Julie Newman provided a component solution that ensured the Europa Clipper spacecraft's high radiation tolerance despite a late-breaking failure.
Falcon Heavy is under contract to launch the Europa Clipper planetary science mission in 2024.
On 2023-08-14, the Europa Clipper spacecraft received its dish-shaped high-gain antenna.
Matthew Bray is the designer and lead engineer for the Europa Clipper high-gain antenna and began working on it in 2014.
Europa Clipper will operate about 444 million miles (715 million kilometers) from Earth when studying Europa.
JUICE and Europa Clipper have planned complementary observations including planned flybys of Europa by the two spacecraft approximately four hours apart.
Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, identified three criteria for restarting VERITAS as soon as 2025: securing necessary funding, JPL making progress on independent review recommendations, and JPL successfully launching Europa Clipper and the NISAR mission.
Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch in October 2024 and remains on schedule despite multiple revisions to its assembly schedule.
Ka-band operation at 32 GHz provides Europa Clipper with higher bandwidth to send data back at high rates.
Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch in October 2024.
The Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna operates on NASA deep space X-band radio frequencies of 7.2 GHz and 8.4 GHz and on Ka-band at 32 GHz.
Data transmitted from Europa Clipper in orbit around Jupiter will take approximately 45 minutes to reach Earth.
The Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna completed a second round of testing in 2024 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Mars Sample Return is a roughly $7,000,000,000 program and Europa Clipper is a roughly $5,000,000,000 mission, making NEO Surveyor relatively small by comparison.
The Europa Clipper flight system designed, built, and tested by APL was the physically largest system ever built by APL.
Europa Clipper is set to launch in October 2024.
The fiscal year 2023 budget request planned to terminate the International Mars Ice Mapper to support higher priority planetary science missions including Mars Sample Return and Europa Clipper.
NASA’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal seeks to delay development of NEO Surveyor by at least two years to 2028 to address cost growth in flagship science programs such as Mars Sample Return and Europa Clipper.
NASA awarded a launch services contract to SpaceX on 2021-07-23 for the 2024-10-01 launch of Europa Clipper on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
The Europa Clipper launch services contract awarded to SpaceX is valued at $178,000,000.