SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches NASA’s Europa Clipper – IOTW Report

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches NASA’s Europa Clipper

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This weekend, I covered the fantastic accomplishment of the SpaceX team’s fifth Starship test launch, as the spacecraft’s 232-foot Falcon Super Heavy booster rocket returned to the launchpad and was “caught” by a pair of enormous mechanical arms nicknamed “Mechazilla.”

SpaceX is adding another win this week. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center(KSC), kicking off a highly anticipated astrobiology mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa. NASA’s Europa is slated to arrive at the Jovian moon in 2030.

 
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5 Comments on SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches NASA’s Europa Clipper

  1. The engineering behind that, the technology. Amazing.
    Now if we could figure out how to vote without cheating by one side and have election results completed that night. Like other countries.

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  2. Harry
    Thursday, 17 October 2024, 9:30 at 9:30 am
    “SpaceX: Cuz you can’t lie your way into space!”

    We get ’em INTO space just FINE!

    …it’s getting them BACK is the HARD part!

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