Showing posts with label Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Show all posts
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Friday, March 8, 2024

Spacecraft Makers: Europa Clipper's Instrument Integration - planetary science

The Europa Clipper spacecraft is slated for launch in October 2024.It will arrive at Jupiter in 2030.*The propulsion module and one of the instruments were assembled by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel,Maryland.Other instruments were assembled by UCLA;the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University;the Souhtwest Research Institute (SwRI);the University of Michigan;the University of Texas Austin;and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.The spacecraft was assembed in the High Bay 1 clean room at NASA JPL-Caltech.