The Europa Clipper mission is expected for launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket claimed by Musk’s company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said in an explanation posted on the web.
Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was granted a $178 million launch administrations contract for NASA’s first mission zeroing in on Jupiter’s frigid moon Europa and regardless of whether it might have conditions reasonable forever, the space organization said on Friday.
ALSO READ – Elon Musk Congratulates Indian Space ISRO on 3rd test of Vikas Engine for Gaganyaan
The Europa Clipper mission is expected for launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket possessed by Musk’s company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said in an explanation posted on the web.
The agreement denoted NASA’s most recent demonstration of approval in the Hawthorne, California-based company, which has conveyed a few load payloads and space travelers to the International Space Station for NASA lately.
In April, SpaceX was granted a $2.9 billion agreement to construct the lunar lander spacecraft for the arranged Artemis program that would convey NASA space explorers back to the moon interestingly since 1972. In any case, that agreement was suspended after two adversary space organizations, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and safeguard project worker Dynetics Inc, challenged the SpaceX choice.
The company’s somewhat reusable 23-story Falcon Heavy, at present the most impressive functional space launch vehicle on the planet, flew its initial business payload into space in 2019. NASA didn’t say what different organizations may have offered on the Europa Clipper launch contract.
The test is to direct a nitty-gritty study of the ice-shrouded Jovian satellite, which is a cycle more modest than Earth’s moon and is the main up-and-comer in the quest for life somewhere else in the close planetary system.
ALSO READ – Solar Eclipse 2021: NASA Shares Stunning Images On Instagram
A twist in Europa’s attractive field saw by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in 1997 seemed to have been brought about by a fountain spouting through the moon’s frozen outside layer from an immense subsurface sea, scientists closed in 2018. Those discoveries upheld other proof of the Europa crest.
Among the Clipper mission’s goals are to create high-goal pictures of Europa’s surface, decide its piece, search for indications of geologic movement, measure the thickness of its frigid shell and decide the profundity and saltiness of its sea, NASA said.
