Europa Clipper

Europa Clipper — spacecraft, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

NASA’s largest planetary spacecraft will make dozens of daring flybys of Europa to probe the vast salt-water ocean beneath its icy shell.

Launched
14 Oct 2024
Status
En route to Jupiter — arrives 2030

Seeing Europa Clipper in real time

Cosmoscope draws Europa Clipper on its real trajectory, from mission ephemeris rather than an artist's impression. Open the live 3D view to see where Europa Clipper is right now, how far it has travelled from the Sun, and how long its radio signal takes to reach Earth. Scrub the timeline to replay the route that took it there.

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