Yesterday, at 12:06 p.m. EDT, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
After the launch was delayed because of the hurricane Milton in Florida, we had clear skies over Meritt Island yesterday and it was go time.
Clipper’s mission is to embark on a five year plus trek across the solar system to Jupiter’s moon Europa, where it will try and investigate the presence of a subsurface ocean underneath the crust of the Jovian moon.