Europa Clipper is to reach Jupiter in April 2030 ... explaining that they may have had to haul the spacecraft back to JPL, replace questionable MOSFETs with better ones, and redo flight ...

However, Europa Clipper has operated flawlessly ... so we leave on a path that will bring us back past Earth." That flyby around Earth is scheduled for December 2026, and will position the ...

As Europa Clipper glides above Mars ... “I’m going to put my roots back down.” Traub’s next projects will involve work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a space telescope set ...

NASA has been preparing for their Europa Clipper mission since 2013, when the mission’s pre-project was approved. The spacecraft is roughly the length of a basketball court, making it the ...

Europa Clipper's flyby of Mars on March 1 will bring ... so we leave on a path that will bring us back past Earth." Besides saving fuel and traveling vast distances much faster, gravity assists ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...