NASA Units Protection for Europa Clipper Creation to Jupiter Moon

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will serve reside protection of prelaunch and starting actions for Europa Clipper, the company’s undertaking to discover Jupiter’s cold moon Europa. NASA is focused on starting at 12:31 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 10, on a SpaceX Falcon Weighty rocket from Creation Complicated 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Length Middle in Florida.

Past Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought of as some of the sun device’s maximum promising probably liveable environments. Next an roughly 1.8-billion-mile walk, Europa Clipper will input orbit round Jupiter in April 2030, the place the spacecraft will behavior an in depth survey of Europa to decide whether or not the cold international can have situations appropriate for time. Europa Clipper is the most important spacecraft NASA has ever advanced for a planetary undertaking. It carries a set of 9 tools along side a gravity experiment that can examine an ocean underneath Europa’s floor, which scientists imagine comprises two times as a lot liquid H2O as Earth’s oceans.

For a agenda of reside occasions and the platforms they’ll flow on, consult with:

https://go.nasa.gov/europaclipperlive 

The cut-off date for media accreditation for in-person protection of this starting has handed. NASA’s media credentialing policy is to be had on-line. For questions on media accreditation, please e mail: [email protected].

NASA’s undertaking protection is as follows (all occasions Jap and matter to modify in accordance with real-time operations):

Tuesday, Oct. 8
1 p.m. – In-person, one-on-one interviews, clear to media credentialed for this starting.

3:30 p.m. – NASA’s Europa Clipper science briefing with refer to members:

• Gina DiBraccio, performing director, Planetary Science Section, NASA Headquarters
• Robert Pappalardo, mission scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
• Haje Korth, deputy mission scientist, Europa Clipper, Implemented Physics Laboratory (APL)
• Cynthia Phillips, mission group of workers scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL

Protection of the science information convention will flow continue to exist NASA+ and the agency’s website, Discover ways to stream NASA content thru a number of platforms, together with social media.

Media might ask questions in user and by means of telephone. Restricted auditorium territory shall be to be had for in-person participation. For the dial-in quantity and passcode, media must touch the NASA Kennedy newsroom negative then than one future ahead of the beginning of the development at: [email protected].

Wednesday, Oct. 9
2 p.m. – NASA Social panel at NASA Kennedy with refer to members:

• Kate Calvin, prominent scientist and senior environment guide, NASA Headquarters
• Caley Burke, Gliding Design Analyst, NASA’s Creation Services and products Program
• Erin Leonard, mission group of workers scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
• Juan Pablo León, techniques testbed engineer, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
• Elizabeth Turtle, predominant investigator, Europa Imaging Gadget tool, Europa Clipper, APL

The panel will flow continue to exist NASA Kennedy’s YouTube, X, and Facebook accounts. Contributors of the people might ask questions on-line through posting to the YouTube, X, and Fb reside streams or the use of #AskNASA.

3:30 p.m. – NASA’s Europa Clipper prelaunch information convention (following finishing touch of the Creation Readiness Assessment), with refer to members:

• NASA Worker Administrator Jim Separate
• Sandra Connelly, deputy assistant administrator, Science Project Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• Tim Dunn, starting director, NASA’s Creation Services and products Program
• Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science Missions, SpaceX
• Jordan Evans, mission supervisor, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL
• Mike McAleenan, starting climate officer, forty fifth Climate Squadron, U.S. Length Pressure

Protection of the prelaunch information convention will flow continue to exist NASA+, the agency’s website, the NASA app, and YouTube.

Media might ask questions in user and by means of telephone. Restricted auditorium territory shall be to be had for in-person participation. For the dial-in quantity and passcode, media must touch the NASA Kennedy newsroom negative then than one future ahead of the beginning of the development at [email protected].

5:30 p.m. – NASA’s Europa Clipper rollout display. Protection will flow continue to exist NASA+, the agency’s website, the NASA app, and YouTube.

Thursday, Oct. 10
11:30 a.m. – NASA starting protection in English starts on NASA+ and the agency’s website.

11:30 a.m. – NASA starting protection in Spanish starts on NASA+, the company’s website and NASA’s Spanish YouTube channel.

12:31 p.m. – Creation

Audio Handiest Protection
Audio simplest of the scoop meetings and starting protection shall be carried at the NASA “V” circuits, that could be accessed through dialing 321-867-1220, -1240 or -7135. On starting time, “mission audio,” countdown actions with out NASA+ media starting observation, is carried on 321-867-7135.

Reside Video Protection Previous to Creation
NASA will serve a reside video feed of Creation Complicated 39A roughly 18 hours previous to the deliberate liftoff of the undertaking at the NASA Kennedy newsroom YouTube channel. The feed shall be uninterrupted till the starting broadcast starts on NASA+.

NASA Web site Creation Protection
Creation time protection of the undertaking shall be to be had at the agency’s website. Protection will come with hyperlinks to reside streaming and weblog updates starting negative previous than 10 a.m., Oct. 10, because the countdown milestones happen. On-demand streaming video and footage of the starting shall be to be had in a while nearest liftoff.

Practice countdown protection at the Europa Clipper blog. For questions on countdown protection, touch the Kennedy newsroom at 321-867-2468.

Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con Antonia Jaramillo: [email protected] o Messod Bendayan: [email protected] 

Attend the Creation Nearly
Contributors of the people can register to wait this starting just about. NASA’s virtual guest program for this undertaking additionally comprises curated starting sources, notifications about homogeneous alternatives or adjustments, and a stamp for the NASA digital visitor passport following starting.

Attend to, Interact on Social Media
Let nation know you’re following the undertaking on X, Fb, and Instagram through the use of the hashtags #EuropaClipper and #NASASocial. You’ll additionally keep hooked up through following and tagging those accounts:

X: @NASA, @EuropaClipper, @NASASolarSystem, @NASAJPL, @NASAKennedy, @NASA_LSP 
Fb: NASA, NASA’s Europa Clipper, NASA’s JPL, NASA’s Launch Services Program
Instagram: @NASA, @nasasolarsystem, @NASAKennedy, @NASAJPL

For more info in regards to the undertaking, consult with:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/

SOURCE NASA

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