Getting NASA’s Europa Clipper Ready for Its Mission
How did the team working on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft test whether it will work properly in outer space? A special chamber that emulates the environment it will experience when it launches in October 2024, of course. Watch this video to learn more about how the team moved the main body of the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission into JPL's historic thermal vacuum chamber.
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