the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a gravity assist. NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa ...

During this maneuver, the spacecraft will get as close as 300 miles and 600 miles (482 to 965 kilometers) above Mars' surface. This gravity assist won't send the Europa Clipper on to Jupiter ...

NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

After using the gravity of Mars and Earth as a slingshot, Europa Clipper is targeted to reach its destination in 2030 after traveling 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers). U.S. Poet Laureate ...

It will also test new robotic exploration tools for use on future missions to the Moon or Mars ... December 2026, Europa Clipper will perform a flyby of Earth, using Earth’s gravity to further ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter ... exciting deep-space flyby missions in 2025. A flyby, or gravity assist, is when a spacecraft passes close enough to a planet ...