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Europa Clipper Tests its Star Tracker Navigation System


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.

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