Technicians prepare to install the high-gain antenna on NASA’s Europa Clipper at Kennedy Space Center on June 17, 2024.
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Technicians prepare to install the nearly 10 feet (3 meters) wide dish-shaped high-gain antenna to NASA’s Europa Clipper, a spacecraft to study Jupiter’s icy moon, at the agency’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, June 17, 2024.
The spacecraft will perform a series of flybys of the Jupiter moon Europa to gather data on its atmosphere, icy crust, and the ocean underneath, and the high-gain antenna will send the research data to scientists on Earth to determine if the moon can support habitable condition.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft launched Oct. 14, 2024, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
