Europa Orbiter

NASA mission launched to search for life on a Jupiter satellite

 

The Europa Clipper mission launched Monday for a six-year journey that will take it to Jupiter and its icy satellite Europa.

The spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. (local time, 7:06 p.m. in Greece) Monday. The original plan was to launch on Thursday but the mission was postponed due to Hurricane Milton.