- July 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
FOX Business’ Charlie Gasparino discusses Tesla CEO Elon Musk announcement on Starlink.
NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Southern California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has awarded SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) with the launch services contract for the Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Europa.
The “Europa Clipper” mission is set for October 2024 and NASA said in a Friday release that the spacecraft will launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The contract award is approximately $178 million dollars.
Scientists at the agency will explore whether Jupiter’s icy moon, which is about 90% the size of Earth’s moon, could host conditions suitable for life.
The world – discovered first by famed astronomer Galileo Galilei – shows strong evidence for an ocean of salty water…
