An ambitious mission hunting for signs of life around Jupiter will hunker down in Florida as Hurricane Milton barrels across the state. Officials are hoping the highly-anticipated mission could launch as early as this weekend.
Hurricane Milton prompted NASA officials to call off a Thursday launch of its Europa Clipper spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida, space agency officials announced Sunday. The spacecraft, set to launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, will ride out the powerful storm inside the company’s KSC hangar.
On Tuesday afternoon, Europa Clipper project scientist Robert Pappalardo told a crowd at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences that Clipper could roll out as early as Sunday…