NASA is poised to launch Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, as early as October 10. The spacecraft will blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It will study Europa, a possible home for extraterrestrial life, through a series of flybys after reaching Jupiter in 2030.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to launch on October 10, 2024, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, where evidence suggests potential life-sustaining ingredients exist. The mission aims to assess the moon's ocean beneath its icy crust over six years and includes 49 flybys.

Per NASA.... "Europa Clipper is the first mission dedicated to studying Jupiter’s moon Europa, which scientists believe has a salty ocean under its icy shell. While not designed to detect life, the spacecraft is equipped with nine science instruments and a gravity experiment,