Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter around April 2030, and is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever deployed for a planetary mission.
NASA is set to livestream the launch of its Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in a search for signs for possible alien life. Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter around April 2030, and is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever deployed for a planetary mission.
Joining the journey with the Europa Clipper will be a special vault plate, which will have a visual representation of the word water in 103 spoken languages on one side, and an engraving of US Poet Laureate Ada Limon’s poem “In Praise of Mystery. A Poem for Europa,” an engraving of the Drake Equation, and tribute to planetary scientist Ron Greeley on the other side.
