The fundamental body of Europa Clipper is mainly an aluminum cylinder that measures 10 feet or 3 meters tall and 5 feet or1.5 m wide. Equipped with integrated electronics, cabling, and propulsion system, the spacecraft body appeared at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in southern California in June.

“It’s an exciting time for the whole project team and a huge milestone,” Jordan Evans, the mission’s project manager at JPL, said in a statement. “This delivery brings us closer to launch and the Europa Clipper science investigation.”

Engineers and technicians will presently work on the assembly of Europa Clipper, which includes integrating the mission’s nine science tools to prepare the spacecraft for liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in October 2024.

The Europa Clipper, nominated for the three-masted, ocean-going merchant ships of the 19th century, schedules to conduct nearly 50 flybys of Europa, an icy Jupiter moon that scientists think has an internal ocean encompassing two times as much water as Earth’s oceans combined.

Planned to arrive in the Jupiter system in 2030, the spacecraft will utilize its suite of instruments to pile data about Europa’s atmosphere, surface, and interior to begin to reply to questions about the moon’s atmosphere.

Europa Clipper will scout for potential water crests taking out samples of the theorized subsurface ocean through Europa’s wrecked and crisscrossed shell.

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