{"id":140431,"date":"2022-06-12T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/europa-clippers-main-body-complete-teams-continue-work-toward-2024-launch"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:04:17","slug":"europa-clippers-main-body-complete-teams-continue-work-toward-2024-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/europa-clippers-main-body-complete-teams-continue-work-toward-2024-launch","title":{"rendered":"Europa Clipper\u2019s main body complete, teams continue work toward 2024 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oj_wZzcWEG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In early June, the main body of NASA\u2019s upcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft completed construction and was shipped to NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California soon after. The arrival of Europa Clipper\u2019s main body marks a major milestone in the construction of the spacecraft and shows that the spacecraft and its teams are on track for a launch in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting time for the whole project team and a huge milestone. This delivery brings us one step closer to launch and the Europa Clipper science investigation,\u201d said Europa Clipper project manager Jordan Evans of JPL.<\/p>\n<p>While the construction of the spacecraft\u2019s main body is complete, that does not mean construction of the spacecraft as a whole is finished. Numerous mission-critical components are yet to be assembled and installed onto the spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early June, the main body of NASA\u2019s upcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft completed construction and was shipped to NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California soon after. The arrival of Europa Clipper\u2019s main body marks a major milestone in the construction of the spacecraft and shows that the spacecraft and its teams are on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}