Europa Clipper: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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In February 2017, the mission moved from Phase A to Phase B (the preliminary design phase).<ref name="Greicius">{{Cite news |last=Greicius |first=Tony |date=February 21, 2017 |title=NASA's Europa Flyby Mission Moves into Design Phase |publisher=NASA |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-europa-flyby-mission-moves-into-design-phase |url-status=live |access-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112040348/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-europa-flyby-mission-moves-into-design-phase/ |archive-date=November 12, 2020}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> On July 18, 2017, the House Space Subcommittee held hearings on the ''Europa Clipper'' as a scheduled [[Large Strategic Science Missions]] class, and to discuss a possible follow up mission simply known as the [[Europa Lander (NASA)|Europa Lander]].<ref name="Flagship" /> Phase B continued into 2019.<ref name="Greicius" /> In addition, subsystem vendors were selected, as well as prototype hardware elements for the science instruments. Spacecraft sub-assemblies will be built and tested as well.<ref name="Greicius" />

In July of 2024, the spacecraft faced concerns of delay and of missing the launch window because of a discovery in June 2024 that its components were not as radiation-hardened as previously believed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Berger |first=Eric |date=2024-07-12 |title=NASA's flagship mission to Europa has a problem: Vulnerability to radiation |url=https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/nasas-flagship-mission-to-europa-has-a-problem-vulnerability-to-radiation/ |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us}}</ref> As of September 2024, it is approved for launch.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/science/nasa-europa-clipper-radiation.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240919&instance_id=134706&nl=the-morning&regi_id=231921808&segment_id=178239&te=1&user_id=06ff4d19e194ea9892e0564e6d53f77a</ref><ref>https://www.space.com/nasa-europa-clipper-cleared-oct-2024-launch</ref>

===Fabrication and assembly===