SpaceX to launch NASA’s ‘Europa Clipper Mission’

  • SpaceX - Elon Musk’s private rocket company – has been awarded a $178 million launch services contract for the Europa Clipper Mission, NASA’s first mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
  • The mission has been scheduled for launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket owned by Musk’s company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • The partly reusable Falcon Heavy, currently the most powerful operational space launch vehicle in the world, flew its first commercial payload into orbit in 2019.
  • In recent years, SpaceX has carried several cargo payloads and astronauts to the International Space Station for ....
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