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Market will test a Musk merger that promises space based internet

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The combination of xAI and SpaceX before much anticipated IPO has analysts expecting big things but financial queries remain.

Elon Musk move past week to combine xAI and SpaceX has created one of world mega and most valuable private companies which analysts  says offers a mix of potential growth and financial danger as it move towards public markets.

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The two companies are different SpaceX was  founded in 2002 and has establish itself as premiere nongovernmental space exploration operation.

Musk XAI venture was started less than three years before to focus on AI and latest social media.

XAI acquired the social media platform x last March.

As spaceX prepares to go public later this year the merger could be Musk way of positioning SpaceX strategy to contest with expected IPO of two of his biggest contest.

OpenAI and Anthropic in AI race said Ali Javaheri a research analyst.

Analyst told media that both entities have something to gain from coming together.

SpaceX gets edge ahead of its IPO and xAI can expand its AI infrastructure while getting much needed injection of cash as one expert put it.

In Monday reveal Musk said the merger will create company with AI rockets space based internet direct to mobile device communication and world foremost real time information and free speech platform.

Space with its massive payload capacity and basically a near monopoly in space.’

I think it is going to help Musk other companies kind of catch up in AI data center race and AI training race said Rocco.

Musk added he desire to create AI data centers in space by launching a constellation of million satellites that operate as orbital data centers.

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Musk is pushing forward this concept.

SpaceX described the satellite plan to regulators according to fling submitted to Federal Communications Commission and reviewed by NBC News.

There is industrial logic behind combining SpaceX which would launch and design satellites that would host the compute with XAI which has experience operating these compute clusters and has Grok model that would run on it.

The concept of data centers in space is conceivable.

Del Deo said one Cynical view of the merger is that SpaceX need sexy narrative ahead of its IPO to get investors more excited in stock and drive sort of valuation that they are hoping for.

Bloomberg said that the merger would value the combined companies at $1.25 trillion with bulk of valuation $1 trillion coming from SpaceX.

A Tuesday note co authored by Dan Ives global head of technology research at Wedbush securities said this would mark largest tie up across Musk enterprises yet.

Forest analyst wrote in Tuesday report that aligning the merger as well as the FCC filing ahead of its Potential IPO as classic Musk valuation inflation.

SpaceX is packing a narrative of hype scalable lo lowest cost AI compute from space the kind of storyline that expands TAM lifts growth multiples and reframes starship as structure cost moat the analyst wrote.

These are classic ingredients for pre IPO narrative life and familiar pattern in Musk era market signaling its positions ambitions are inevitability inviting investors to price in future that emerging has to substantiate.

I can not think of another one that would be more hyped than this everyone is attempting to get a piece of SpaceX he said.

I think it is going to price higher than most people expect and most people expect it to be largest IPO in history.

SpaceX and xAI joining forces has driven gossips over what this means for Musks electric company Tesla.

Tesla announced it earning release that it is investing about $2 billion to acquire shares of XAI is proffered stock.

The two companies entered into framework agreement to evaluate potential AI collaborations Tesla added.

In the long Run, Rocco said he thinks it would be good synergy but that it would be very hard sell.

He said if he were private investor in SpaceX he would just want to come public on its own they have monopoly.

Gene Muster managing partner said in interview that he thinks Tesla shareholders would welcome combination.

NASA is sending Crew 12 astronauts to ISS on February 11

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The Crew 12 astronauts will soon make their method to ISS joining three remaining Spacefarers on board after previous mission was cut short due to medical worries.

NASA was planning a February 15 launch date for mission but it has moved it up to February 11.

It is now targeting to liftoff no earlier than 6,01 AM Eastern that day from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

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The crew members are in quarantine and if everything goes well on launch day the Dragon capsule they are on will dock with lab at almost 10: 30 am on February 12.

 

Spacex had to ground its Falcon 9 rocket after problem with its upper stage for few days leaving the Crew 12 flight shcedule in queries.

But on February 6 the Federal Aviation Administration cleared it for next flight.

NASA will livestream the mission prelaunch, launch and docking activities on NASA + Amazon Prime and YouTube Channel with launch coverage starting at 4 AM Eastern Time on February 11.

NASA decided to bring Crew 11 members back home on January 15 a month earlier than planned citing medical worries with one of members.

The affected astronaut was stable.

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The ISS did not have necessary instrument be able to diagnose them properly.

All four members of Crew 11 flew home leaving whole space station in hands of three people namely NASA astronaut Chris William and two cosmonauts for Russian Side.

They will joined by Crew 12 NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway europe space agency Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaey.

NASA readies its most explosive rocket for round the moon flight

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Artemis II mission could launch on February 6 sending astronauts on 685000 mile journey.

Nasa is preparing roll out its most explosive rocket before mission to send astronauts around the moon and back again for first time in over 50 years.

The Artemis II mission scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida as early as 6 February taking its crew on 685000 mile round trip that will end about 10 days later with splashdown in Pacific Ocean.

The flight will mark only second test of Nasa Space Launch System SLS rocket and first with crew onboard.

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The four astronauts will live and work in Orion capsule testing life support and communication system and practising docking manoeuvre.

Its a big deal said David Parker ex head of UK Space Agency and visiting professor at University of Southhampton.

“It is a move towards what we in space world always dreamed of the sustained human and robotic exploration of moon and one day on to Mars”

Some paint the return to moon as second space race with USA contesting agains Chine. which hopes to put own boot on moon by 2030.

I shall be damned if chinese beat Nasa or beat America back to moon. Sean Duff Nasa ex acting administrator said in September.

We are going to win.

The flight will mark only second test of Nasa Space Launch System SLS rocket and first with crew onboard.

The four astronauts will live and work in Orion capsule testing life support and communication system and practising docking manoeuvres.

Jared Isaacman the billionaire private astronaut sworn in as Nasa administrator in December said on Thursday the mission was probable one of most important human spaceflight mission in last half century.

It will be second time in space for three Nasa astronauts. Reid Wiseman Victor Glover and Christina Koch and first for Jeremy Hansen a Canadian astronaut Koch will become first lady and Glover the first person of colour to travel beyond low Earth orbit.

The astronauts will not land on moon or enter lunar orbit but will be first to travel around moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The SLS rocket and Orion capsule almost 100 meters tall with rocket carrying over enough liquid propellant to fill olympic sized swimming pool.

When burned through the rocket engines it produces enough thrust to fly to moon at speed of up to 24500 mph.

Over 50 year after humans went to moon it is time to get excited again. Every rocket launch is nail biter Parker said.

We are putting astronauts on a rocket and flown only once before so of course it is a nail biter.

For all Nasa preparations and astronaut expensive training the mission could throw some stunning wonders.

This is test flight and there are things that are going to be unexpected said Jeff Radigan Artemis II lead flight director.

An ultimate push from Orion Europe service module will send the crew to moon.

The astronauts will travel over 230000 miles from Earth passing around far side of moon before looping back in mega figure of eight trajectory.

During the travel the crew will practise emergency procedures and test Orion radiation shelter designed to save them from harmful solar flares.

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Nasa crawler transporter 2 and huge tracked vehicle will start lugging the 5000 tonne rocket and spacecraft from vehicle assembly building to launchpad.

The four mile journey can take up to 12 hours.

NASA will work through a preflight checklist.

It all goes to plan engineers will move on to wet dress rehearsal loading rocket with over 700,000 gallons of propellant conducting a trial countdown and demonstrating that they can remove propellant safely.

Any mega problems would require rocket to be rolled back to vehicle assembly building for repairs.

In latest days, technicians have been working on bent cable in rocket flight termination system a faulty valve used to pressurise the Orion capsule and leaks in instruments that pumps oxygen into spacecraft.

The complete process must go smoothly for mission to launch on 6 February.

If technical problems or bad weather involve Nasa identified 14 other dates to launch before mid April.

After liftoff the crew will loop twice around Earth. Before moving to moon the Orion capsule will separate from rocket upper stage.

The astronauts will fly the spacecraft manually using cameras and view outside the window to approach and retreat the jettisoned stage.

This will give Nasa sense of how Orion handles for future Artemis missions where crew will dock and undock in lunar orbit.

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Astronaut serious medical condition forces Nasa to end space station mission early

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A serious medical condition with crew member aboard the international space station has led Nasa to bring astronaut and three crewmates back to Earth months earlier than planned the first emergency return in orbiting laboratory 25 year history senior space agency said.

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Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman told media on Thursday in short notice press conference in Washington that he and medical official made decision to return astronaut whom he did not identify because the capability to diagnose and treat this property does on live on international space station.

The NASA official did not identify which of Crew 11 mission four astronauts was experiencing the medical problem or describe its nature citing crew member privacy.

This is not emergency evacuation.

This is first early evacuation in history of ISS which has been continously inhabited since year 2000.

The four person team is called Crew 11 and consist of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke Kimiya Yui from Japan JAXA space agency and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.

One American astronaut will remain aboard the ISS official say.

It will be accompanied by Two Russian cosmonauts.

Dr James Polk Nasa chief health and medical officer told media that this was the first time in Nasa over 65 year history that mission would comeback early due to medical problem.

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Crew 11 launched to ISS in August last year on SpaceX Crew Dragon and were expected to remain in orbit for almost six months coming back almost next month after being replace by other four person crew few days earlier.

The ISS has basic medical equipment supplies and system that let doctors on Earth talk privately to astronauts in space assess their condition and treatment much like safe video or phone consultation with general doctors.

Returning the four person crew early could delay some experiments and maintenance goals until new crew arrive next month according to Dr Simeon Barber a space scientist at Open University.

The space station is big complex feat of engineering it is designed to operated by certain minimum level of crew he added.

He said that the remaining crew would probably be forced to dial back on some of experimental work and focus more on housekeeping and keeping station healthy waiting  for full complement of crew to be restored.

Spacewalks are arduous and risky mission that require months of training involving bulky spacesuits and coordinated instruction while tethered to ISS.

An update was expected within 48 hour on timeline of astronauts return the Nasa officials added.

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On Wednesday Nasa cancelled a spacewalk due to take place on Thursday when two astronauts were set to step outside the ISS citing medical worries.

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

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NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe almost a month before and attempt to re establish a connection have been futile.

For nearly a month NASA has been scrambling to make contact with spacecraft in orbit around Mars that fell silent.

The space agency lost communication with MAVEN probe on Dec. 6 and attempt to re establish a connection have been futile.

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Based on bits of data received that day mission controllers think the probe was spinning unexpectedly.

MAVEN spacecraft entered orbit around Mars in 2014 it has been studying the red planet upper atmosphere including plasma layer famous as ionoshphere and investigating how and why Mars has been losing its atmosphere over billion of years.

The spacecraft has been instrumental in relaying communication between two rovers on surface of Mars, curiosity and perservance and earth.

NASA has not able to reach MAVEN since it experience what agency called a loss of signal with ground station on Earth on Dec 6.

At time the spacecraft was orbiting behind Mars so signal loss was routine.

Mars always blocks Maven from phoning home during maneuver.

Probe re emerged from behind red planet NASA could not pick up any signals from it.

Nasa added it was investigating the anomaly in statement on Dec. 9 but provided few details.

Mission controllers reported that all of Maven subsystem had been working normally before it passed behind Mars.

The Maven mission was designed to last two years but it has been operating continously for over a decade.

NASA celebrated the probe 10th anniversary orbiting Mars.

The process of atmospheric loss on Mars MAVEN was helping scientist to get clearer picture of planet past and present climate and how it transformed from potential habitable world with liquid water on its surface to cold and barren planet that is today.

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The spacecraft is one of three NASA currently has in orbit around Mars.

The space agency also operated the Mars Orbiter which launched in 2005 and Mars Odyseey which lifted off in 2001.

“Trump Just Put a Reality Star in Charge of NASA You Won’t Belive Why”

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President appoints his transportation secretary as interim administrator of space agency as it faces trouble amid Trump budget cuts.

Donald Trump appointed transportation secretary Sean Duffy as interim administrator of Nasa six weeks after withdrawing the nomination of Elon Musk ally and billionaire Jared Isaacman for permanent role.

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Duffy a former Rebublican congressman from Wisconsin who star on MTV The Real World in 1997 brings no space background to role.

His appointment is seen as signal that Trump intends to push through his budget cuts which would terminate dozens of science mission consisiting the Mars Odyssey spacecraft that has been studying the red planet since 2001.

The president revealed the appointment on Truth Social on Wednesday evening praising Duffy work on transport infrastructure and show him as someone who will be a leader of the ever more space agency even if only for a short period of time.

Duffy who maintain his cabinet positio  while taking on Nasa duties wrote on X.

“Honored to accept this mission. Tine to take over space. Let’s launch”

What Happened to Mars’ Water? A latest Study offers a mindblowing answer

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An analysis done by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may added why the planet was probable a harsh desert for most of latest past.

The deep canyons on Mars shaped by ancient rivers showed that planed was once warm enough to help flowing liquid water.

But how did it transform into cold dry desert we see today and what caused this dramatic shift.

A latest study led by Edwin Kit scientist at University of Chicago offers latest explanation for this long standing mystery

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Due to planet unqiue conditions these warm phases were short lived and Mars reverted to its dry inhospitable state.

Unlike Earth which has remained steadily habitable Mars appear to follow natural pattern that favors deser like condition over time.

The study builds on findings from NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosirt mission that were revealed in April the rover ultimately found rocks rich in carbonate mineral which could explain where Mars atmosphere went.

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The explanation was made possible by Curiosity discovery revealed earlier this year of carbonate rich rocks on Mars surface.

This had been missing piece of puzzle for years the scientists added.

To have had liquid water, Mars had have a thicker atmosphere made up of greenhouse gas like CO2.

There is little atmosphere leaving a puzzle of where the carbon went.

“People have been looking for tomb for atmosphere for years” said Kite.

“It really is somethign you cannot know untile you have rover on surface” said study coauthor Benjamin Tutolo professor at University of Calgary

“The chemistry and mineralogy measurement they provide really are essential in our continuing quest to understand how and why planet stay habitable in order to search for hospitable wolrd out in universe”.

Mars has same makeup as Earth its a rocky planet with plenty of water and carbon near to sun to warmed but not cooked by it and today its a frozen desert while Earth fill with life.

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For years scientists have searching for reply to why you are reading this from Earth and not Mars.

The mystery deepened when we were able to see river carved valley and old lakebeds on surface of Mars showing planet at some point did have climate that was warm enough for liquid water.

“Mars preserves a trace of that enviromental catastrophe in rocks on its surface” Kite said

“And today we are in golden age of Mars science with two plutonium powered rovers on surface and international fleet of spacecraft in orbit that permit us to deeply explore the planet for these traces”

When it comes to keeping planet balmy and mild is not enough to begin out that method there need to mechanism for stability over time that can reply to changes on and around the planet.

Scientist think Earth does this throug finely balance system that moves carbon from sky to rock and back again.

CO2 in atmosphere warms the planet but warmer temperature speed up reactions that lock up carbon dioxide into rock which finally counteracts the temperature rise.

Finally carbon leaks back out into atmosphere via volcanice eruptions.

Over million of years this cycle seems to have kept Earth stable and hospitable for life.

On Mars researchers said a similar cycle could take place but self limiting one.

It hinges on fact that our sun brightness rises very slowly over time about 8 percent per billion years.

As the sun brightens the scientist hypothesize liquid water starts running on Mars. But this water starts causing co2 to get lockied into rocks as it does on Earth which swings the planet back to cold and barren desert.

“In contrast to Earth where there are some volcanoes erupting. Mars right now is dormant and average rate of volcanic outglassing on Mars is slow

Kite said

“So in that situation you really have balance between carbon dioxide in and carbon dioxide out because if you have little bit of liquid water you are going to draw down carbon dioxide through carbonate formation”

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The group buil models showing how these swings could occur.

They said that Mars experience short periods of liquid water followed by 100 million year long periods of desert.

Needless to added a 100  million year long gap in habitability is worse for life.

Why does Mars look yellow, purple and orange in ESA’s surprising latest satellite photos?

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Stunning colors and features are captured in latest image of Mars’ surface.

Mars shows off its swirling yellows oranges browns in latest satellite images from European Space Agency ESA.

The Earth toned surface reveals an impace crater and four sneaky dust devils making their method across the region.

The Rothko like photo was taken by high resolution camera on ESA Mars Express orbiter and captures Arcadia Planitia an area of Mars critical to research about planet past and its potential to house humans in future.

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Arcadia Planitia

Northwest of the tallest volcanoes in solar system Arcadia Planitia is region of intrigue.

Its fill with solidified lava flows that are 3 billion years old.

The region is thought to host water ice close to planet surface making it region of interest when planning futrure mission to Mars according to statement from ESA.

Arcadia Planitia is home to dust devils short lived columns of wind akin to little tornadoes.

Dust devils from when the Martian surface warms air just above it leading air to climb and pulling dust with it.

The new photo shows four dust devil as snake their method across the plains of area.

Easy to overlook you can spit them whitish puffs of dust near center of photos straddling the boundary between darket brown and lighter red parts of plain.

A mega impact crater sits in right corner of images and measure 9 miles across according to ESA.

The formation of layered material around crater is evidence that ground encompassed amounts of water ice during impace and lack of erosion of crater dates it relatively latest on geological timeline.

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Is the image out of focus?

Guts of air pick up and carry small particles of debris from planet surface which creates a minor visual haze.

Below the red section is purplish brown terrain which has high concentration of silicates and low concentration of iron notes.

The difference in colors stems from properties of sand like size and density which affect how grains accumulate and travel across Mars.

The wind cause haze is responsible for reddish region at top of images.

The red area is covered in ridges called vardangs which formed when wind erodes vulnerable rock and leaves resistant rock still standing.

Trump Signs Budget Bill Billions for Shuttle Relocation to Texas and NASA

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The US House passed President Trump mega spending bill officially named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on 3rd july.
Trump signed the bill on 4th July.
The bill consist of $10.08 billion for NASA programmes that Trump Administration had proposed cutting from Fy 2026 budget.
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Budget Proces Ongoing

This reconcillation bill provide funding to regular appropriations.

Progress on FY 2026 budget bills has been slower than usual.

The House was set to mark up the NASA consisting Commerve Justice Science CJS bill on 7th and 10th July

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How the Shuttle Sites were Chosen

Discovery is only shuttle orbiter still owned by government.

NASA used a formal method to decide ultimate display locations for four surviving orbiters.

A sum of 29 companies submitted proposals.

The main priority was to maximise public reach not programme history.

In 2011 then Administrator Charlie Bolden revealed the selections

Enterprise Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum NY

Endeavour California Science Center CA

Atlantis Kennedy Space Center FL

Discovery Smithsonia Udvar Hazy Center VA

An internal review confirmed that NAS followed its guidelines and was not required to priorities historical ties to programme.

Lawmakers Worjed Through the Recess

To meet 4th July deadline both chambers of Congress worked long hours giving up most of planned recess.

The Senate vote was tied 50-50 with Vice President Vance casting tie breaker.

Three senat republicans joined democrats and independents in opposing the bill.

In House it passed by narrow 218-214 margin with two Republicans voting no and all Democrats against.

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Mega Wins for NASA Projects

The final version of bill consist of following major allocations for NASA

$1.25 billion to ensure uninterrupted accest to ISS International Space Station until 2030.

This funding aims to avoid a gap before commerical replacements are ready.

At least $250 million per annum is set aside from FY 2025 through FY2029.

$700 million for MTO Mars Telecommunications Orbiter.

The Orbiter will developed by US commercial provide and is due by 31st December 2028.

It will help the Mars Sample Return mission and future Mars exploration efforts.

$6.72 billion is allocated to Artemis related projects consisting $2.6 billion for Gateway lunar space station.

$4.1 billion for SLS rockets help Artemis IV and V and $20 million for 4th Orion Spacecraft.

$1 billion for facility upgrades at five NASA centres

Michould Assembly Facility LA $30 million

Marshall Space Flight Center AL-$100 million

Stennis Space Center, MS $120 million

Kennedy Spece Center FL $250 million

Johnson Space Center TX $300 million.

$85 million for transffering a space Vehicl to NASA center involved in Commercial Crew Program.

This included $5 million for transportation and expected to used to relocate Shuttle discovery to Houston.

$325 million for US Deorbit Vehicle USDV which will finally deorbit the ISS into Pacific Ocean. NASA awarded $843 million to SpaceX for USDV. That did not consist of lauch costs.

This new funding is to finish the project though its not visible how it will be allocated.

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Shuttle Discovery to Leave Smithsonian?

The bill consist of $85 million for transfer of space vehicle to NASA centre involved in Commercial Crew Program.

The vehicle will go on public display at non profit venue with in 5 miles of that center.

Senators Ted Cruz and John  Corny of Texas are backing separate legislation to move Space Shuttle Discovery to Johnson Space Center in Houston.

$85 million is designated for vehicle transportation.

The two shuttle carrier aircraft use for transfer are museum exhibit themselves making logistics of move unclear.

 

Nasa Launches probe towards jupiter and its moon Europa to assess habitability

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One day after launching a Starship rocket on test fight in Texas SpaceX fired off Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida Monday sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on 1.8 billion mile voyage to jupiter to find out if one of moons host a habitable sub surface ocean.

The Europa Clipper will brake into orbit around Jupiter in April 2030 setting up 49 close flybys of the moon Europa an ice covered region with inside warmed by retenless squeezing of Jupiter gravity as it swings the giant planet in elliptical orbit.

Data from past mission and long range studies from Earth show a salt water ocean lurks beneath moon frozen crust providing a habitable environment.

Microbial life exist in ocean is unknown but Europa Clipper tools will try to find out if it is least possible.

“We want to determine whether Europa has potential to support simple life in deep ocean, beneath its icy layer” “We want to understand whether Europa has key ingredient to support life in its ocean the right chemical elements and energy source for life”

Project Scientist Robert Pappalardo said

“Europa is ice covered moon of Jupiter about the size of Earth moon but believed to have global subsurface ocean that contains more than twice the water of all of Earth oceans combined”

Europa Clipper Launch

To get to jupiter the clipper will first fly past Mars on March 1 using red planet gravity too its speed and bend trajectory to send the probe back toward Earth for another gravity assist flyby in December 2026.

The probe will brake into orbit around Jupiter on April 11,2030 using the gravity of moon Ganymede to slow down before a six to seven hour firing of probe thrusters.

The first of 49 planned flybys of Europa low as 16 miles above surface will start in early 2031.

The mission is expected to last at least three years with chance of extension depending on spacecraft health.

The Clipper will end its voyage with kamikaze descent to Jupiter moon Ganymede to prevent any chance of future uncontrolled crash on Europa that might bring microbes to moon and its habitable sub surface environment.

The Clipper was designed to withstand doses of radiation while making close flybys of Europa housing its flight computer and sensitive gear inside a vault shielded by sheets of aluminium zinc alloy.

Engineers held review to decide how that might affect Clipper and finally concluded the spacecraft could minimize radiation induced degradation by changing the way the flybys are executed.

The only change was to delay launch for years to replace components.

Engineers were dismayed to discover earlier that electrical components used throughout spacecraft failed lower levels of radiation than expected.

“The distance of Jupiter is five times farther from sun than the  Earth is That means it is very cold out there and there only faint sunlight to power the solar arrays so they are huge”

Once deployed the 13.5 foot wide solar arrays will stretch more than 100 feet from end to end more than length of basketball court with two radar antennas extending 58 feet from each array.

NASA planned to launch clipper past week but mission managers ordered a delay to avoid Hurricane Milton which swept across Cape Canaveral on Thursday.

One day slip was ordered to resolve a technical issue and while details were not provided the rocket was cleared for launch.

Right one time the triple core falcon Heavy 27 first engines ignited and throttled up at 12:6pm EDT pushing the towering rocket away from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center with over 5 million pounds of thrust.

Falcon Heavy is giving Europa Clipper its all sending the spacecraft to farthest destination we have ever sent which mean mission requires maximum performance.

“I do not know about you guys but I can not think of better mission to sacrifice booster for where we might have chance to discover life in own solar system”

Missian scientists were attempt to get long mission underway.

“What would be greatest outocme?

“In future may be NASA could send a lander to scoop down below surface and literally search for signs of life”

Pappalardo said.