Europa Clipper is designed to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030 and spend four years making close flybys of Europa, one of the most promising places in our solar system for the search for life ...
By then, the upper-stage of the Falcon Heavy, with its Tesla cargo, was heading on a trajectory that would hopefully take it towards Mars' orbit. That required the engine on the upper-stage to ...
The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.
That's 96 Falcon 9, two Falcon Heavy and three Starship and Super Heavy ... the second stage engines on that mission failed to fire for a reentry trajectory. No one was injured in the incident ...
Rare SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch sends NASA probe to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa The Falcon ... But after separation, the second stage engines on that mission failed to fire for a reentry ...
Rare SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch sends NASA probe to explore ... the second stage engines on that mission failed to fire for a reentry trajectory. No one was injured in the incident, but SpaceX ...
Europa Clipper rode into space on the world's most powerful operational rocket, but it needed all of Falcon Heavy's oomph to reach a trajectory that will eventually take the spacecraft to Jupiter.