NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Looked Doomed. Could Engineers Save It?

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. Europa Clipper, Europa (Moon of Jupiter), Radiation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Engineering and Engineers, Electronics, Rocket Science and Propulsion, Space and Astronomy, Jupiter (Planet), Research, Extraterrestrial Life, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center NYT > Science