NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will have to wait out Hurricane Milton before it begins its five-year journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
The spacecraft had been scheduled to launch Thursday, Oct. 10, from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The highly anticipated mission is seeking to find out whether Europa and its subsurface ocean could support life.
But on Sunday, NASA and SpaceX announced they would be standing down the launch attempt “due to anticipated hurricane conditions in the area.”…