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NASA Updates Coverage for Europa Clipper Following Hurricane
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An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Editor’s note: This advisory was updated Oct. 12, 2024, to reflect a new launch date and updated coverage for prelaunch and launch
activities.
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Europa Clipper, the agency’s mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. NASA now is targeting
launch no earlier than 12:06 p.m. EDT, Monday, Oct. 14, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the solar system’s most promising potentially habitable environments. After an approximately 1.8-billion-mile
journey, Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, where the spacecraft will conduct a detailed survey of Europa to determine whether the icy world could have conditions suitable for life. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has
ever developed for a planetary mission. It carries a suite of nine instruments along with a gravity experiment that will investigate an ocean beneath Europa’s surface, which scientists believe contains twice as much liquid water as Earth’s oceans.
For an updated schedule of live events and the platforms they’ll stream on, visit:
https://go.nasa.gov/europaclipperlive
The deadline for media accreditation for in-person coverage of this launch has passed. NASA’s media
credentialing policy is available online. For questions about media accreditation, please email: ksc-media-accreditat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
NASA’s mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):
Sunday, Oct. 13
9:30 a.m. – NASA’s Europa Clipper science teleconference with the following participants:
Coverage of the science teleconference will stream live on the agency’s
website.
Media may ask questions during both teleconferences via phone. For the dial-in number and passcode, media should contact the NASA Kennedy newsroom no later than one hour before the start
of the event at: ksc-newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
4:15 p.m. – NASA’s Europa Clipper prelaunch teleconference following completion of the Launch Readiness Review. Please follow the
Europa Clipper blog
for updates on time. Participants include:
Coverage of the prelaunch teleconference will stream live on the agency’s
website.
Monday, Oct. 14
11 a.m. – NASA launch coverage in English begins on NASA+.
11 a.m. – NASA launch coverage in Spanish begins on NASA+, and
NASA’s Spanish YouTube channel.
12:06 p.m. – Launch
Audio Only Coverage
Audio only of the news conferences and launch coverage will be carried on the NASA “V” circuits, which may be accessed by dialing 321-867-1220, -1240, or -7135. On
launch day, “mission audio,” countdown activities without NASA+ media launch commentary, is carried on 321-867-7135.
NASA Website Launch Coverage
Launch day coverage of the mission will be available on the agency’s
website. Coverage will include links to live
streaming and blog updates beginning no earlier than 9:30 a.m. EDT, Oct. 13, as the countdown milestones occur. On-demand streaming video and photos of the launch will be available shortly after liftoff.
Follow countdown coverage on the Europa
Clipper blog. For questions about countdown coverage, contact the Kennedy newsroom at 321-867-2468.
Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con Antonia Jaramillo: antonia.jaramillobotero@xxxxxxxx o
Messod Bendayan: messod.c.bendayan@xxxxxxxx.
Attend Launch Virtually
Members of the public can register to
attend this launch virtually. NASA’s virtual guest program for
this mission also includes curated launch resources, notifications about related opportunities or changes, and a stamp for the NASA virtual guest passport following launch.
Watch, Engage on Social Media
Let people know you’re following the mission on X, Facebook, and Instagram by using the hashtags #EuropaClipper and #NASASocial. You can also stay connected by following
and tagging these accounts:
X: @NASA, @EuropaClipper, @NASASolarSystem, @NASAJPL, @NASAKennedy, @NASA_LSP
Facebook: NASA, NASA’s
Europa Clipper, NASA’s
JPL, NASA’s
Launch Services Program
Instagram: @NASA, @nasasolarsystem, @NASAKennedy, @NASAJPL
For more information about the mission, visit:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper
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