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Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Oct. 14, 2024. Get replays of the launch, and mission-related briefings.

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Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa. There’s scientific evidence that the ingredients for life may exist on Europa right now. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to reach Jupiter in April 2030. It will orbit Jupiter, and conduct 49 close flybys of Europa.

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Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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A white rocket and side boosters with a spacecraft enclosed in a protective fairing are shown just above the launch pad. White fire shoots out of the bottom of the rocket while billowy white smoke covers much of the launch pad.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Oct. 14, 2024.
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DateTitleChannel
Oct. 14, 2024Europa Clipper Launch BroadcastReplay on YouTube 
Oct. 14, 2024Transmisión en Vivo del Lanzamiento de la Misión Europa ClipperRepetir en YouTube
Oct. 13, 2024Europa Clipper Prelaunch Update (Media Teleconference)
Speakers:
- NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free
- Sandra Connelly, deputy associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program
- Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science Missions, SpaceX
- Jordan Evans, project manager, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
- Mike McAleenan, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force		Replay on YouTube
Oct. 13, 2024Europa Clipper Mission Science Update (Media Teleconference)
Speakers:
- Gina DiBraccio, acting director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Robert Pappalardo, project scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
- Haje Korth, deputy project scientist, Europa Clipper, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
- Cynthia Phillips, project staff scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
Oct. 3, 2024NASA Science Live: ¿Podría la luna Europa de Júpiter albergar vida?Repetir en YouTube
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Oct. 1, 2024NASA Science Live: Could Jupiter's Moon Europa Support Life?
Speakers:
- Jenny Kampmeier, science systems engineer, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
- Dr. Cynthia Phillips, planetary geologist and Europa Clipper project staff scientist, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA Video
Sept. 19, 2024Europa and Beyond: A Deep Dive into Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System (Live Public Talk)
Speakers:
- Dr. Cynthia Phillips, planetary geologist and Europa Clipper project staff scientist, NASA JPL
- Dr. Benjamin Hockman, robotics technologist, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
Sept. 17, 2024Europa Clipper Mission Countdown: Preview to Launch (News Briefing)
Speakers:
- Gina DiBraccio, acting director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Jordan Evans, project manager, Europa Clipper, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Bonnie Buratti, deputy project scientist, Europa Clipper, JPL
-Stuart Hill, propulsion module delivery manager, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Armando Piloto, senior mission manager, NASA’s Launch Services Program
Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
Sept. 9, 2024Europa Clipper Next Steps Media Teleconference
Speakers:
- Nicola Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
- Laurie Leshin, center director, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Curt Niebur, Europa Clipper program scientist, NASA Headquarters
- Jordan Evans, Europa Clipper project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory		Replay on YouTube
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April 11, 2024JPL Clean Room Q&A: See the Europa Clipper Spacecraft
Speaker:
- Jordan Evans, Europa Clipper Project Manager, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
March 27, 2024Inside the JPL Space Simulator with Europa Clipper
Speakers:
- Annie Marinan, Europa Clipper Deputy Payload Systems Engineer, NASA JPL
- Elodie Lesage, Planetary Scientist, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
Oct. 19, 2023Exploring Ocean Worlds: Europa Clipper Is One Year From Launch (Live Public Talk)
Speakers:
- L. Alberto Cangahuala, Europa Clipper Mission System Manager, NASA JPL
- Kate Craft, Europa Clipper Project Staff Scientist and Assistant Science Systems Engineer, Europa Clipper, JHU APL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
Sep. 28, 2022Europa Clipper: What's So Cool About Jupiter's Icy Moon? (Live Q&A)
Speakers:
- Cynthia Phillips, Europa Clipper Project Staff Scientist, NASA JPL
- Jennifer Dooley, Europa Clipper Project System Engineer, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
June 17, 2021Oh, Jupiter! We Thought We Knew You (Live Public Talk)
Speakers:
- Steve Levin, Juno Project Scientist, NASA JPL
- Cynthia Phillips, Europa Clipper Project Staff Scientist, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video
March 6, 2020The Search for Life: Exploring Ocean Worlds (Live Public Talk)
Speaker:
- Morgan Cable, Astrobiologist, NASA JPL		Replay on YouTube
NASA/JPL Video

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