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Rocket limbo complicating NASA’s Europa Clipper mission – Space.com
Clipper team members say they need a decision soon.
NASA’s highly anticipated mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa
needs a rocket and soon, the project’s planners say.
The Europa Clipper probe
is scheduled to launch in 2024 to study the Jovian satellite, which harbors a huge sea of liquid water beneath its icy shell. Clipper will assess the habitability of that buried ocean and perform a number of other tasks, including scouting out promising sites for a future life-hunting lander mission.
Congress has long mandated that Clipper launch …
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