Smallsat Could Act As ‘Insurance’ For Europa Probe

Credit: Europa Clipper: NASA
Spacecraft engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have developed a concept for a small secondary payload on the planned “Europa Clipper” mission that would dip as low as 2 km above the Jupiter moon’s icy surface to sample ocean-ice fragments large enough to contain the chemical...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.