NASA Installs High Gain Antenna for Mission to Study Icy Moon of Jupiter

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, set to launch in 2024, will journey 1.8 billion miles to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to study its potential for supporting life.

The mission will utilize a high-gain antenna to communicate data back to Earth, exploring the moon’s atmosphere, ice crust, and subterranean ocean during approximately 50 flybys.

NASA Installs High Gain Antenna on Europa Clipper Spacecraft
When NASA’s Europa Clipper is in orbit around Jupiter, transmitting science data and receiving commands from Earth across hundreds of millions of miles, it will need a powerful antenna. Technicians installed the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 17.