Flying Your Name to Jupiter on NASA’s Icy Moon Explorer More than 2.6 million people around the world joined NASA’s Message in a Bottle campaign, a first-of-its-kind initiative that invited people to sign their names to a special message traveling 1.8 billion miles on the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Europa Clipper launched on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon … Read more
On October 14th, 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission launched atop a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will spend the next few years traveling 2.9 billion km (1.8 billion mi) to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa, arriving in April 2030. Once it arrives in the system, the … Read more
Historians will look back on 2024 as a special year for spaceflight. From SpaceX plucking a huge rocket out of the sky to the first privately funded spacewalk to the launch of a $5 billion mission to study an ice-covered ocean moon, this year held many record-breaking achievements and advances that brought humanity ever closer … Read more
Artificial intelligence is being developed to provide a robotic brain for a future NASA mission to land on the icy surface of one of the solar system’s ocean moons, such as Europa or Enceladus. The autonomous software is being developed by teams of researchers who are making use of a robotic arm, mimicking that belonging … Read more