Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's ...

(JUICE's anticipated arrival at Jupiter is July 2031, roughly a year after Clipper.) Europa Clipper's flyby of Mars on March 1 will bring it ... But during its next flyby of Earth in late 2026 ...

With each spacecraft losing about 4 watts of available power per year from their RTGs, the next few instruments to be turned off are already known. Voyager 1’s LECP will be turned off next year ...

It was a history making launch -- when NASA’s Europa Clipper embarked on its long five-year voyage to Jupiter. The $5 billion spacecraft is the largest ever built for a mission headed to another ...

Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980 ... planet completes two orbits for every three orbits of the next planet inwards, then four, six, and so on. This means there are periods ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments ...

NASA installed the solar array for the Europa Clipper spacecraft, a robotic craft with a mission to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa ... while it’s here on Earth. Next, NASA technicians will ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiece to ...