Europa Clipper Spacecraft Launch

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NASA’s largest spacecraft launches for Jupiter’s moon

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321 ignition and lift off The largest spacecraft ever built for planetary exploration, the Europa Clipper launched from NASA 's Kennedy Space Center on Monday , its mission to determine whether Jupiter 's Europa moon could be habitable. The Clipper is NASA 's first spacecraft to study Europa , which is thought to have a huge ocean underneath its ice covered surface. The spacecraft is longer than a basketball court. It also has a vault of titanium and aluminum to rotect it from the damaging radiation that surrounds Jupiter . The Clipper will travel nearly 2 billion miles to arrive at Jupiter in April 2030 ..