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Historical mission record
This page records Falcon Heavy | Europa Clipper and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
Status reported by the mission data provider.
LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
Europa Clipper is the first dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. Mission is developed by NASA and comprises of an orbiter spacecraft, which, while in orbit around Jupiter, will perform numerous flybys over Europa. Europa Clipper payload suit included high-resolution cameras and spectrometers for imaging Europa's surface and thin atmosphere, an ice-penetrating radar to search for subsurface water, and a magnetometer and gravity measurements to measure the moon's magnetic field and unlock clues about its ocean and deep interior.
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Destination orbit
- Heliocentric N/A
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Recovery
- Expended, The Falcon Heavy center core B1089 for this launch has been expended.
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 12.2 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 11
- First flight
- 2018-02-06
Core
B1089
Flight 1New
- Recovery
- Atlantic Ocean
- Landing method
- Expended
Recorded timing
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
0.25 minute windowPublished target
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Target ·
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Weather concerns
Cumulus Cloud Rule
Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−00:53:00
GO for Prop Load
- T−00:50:00
Stage 1 Propellant Load
- T−00:45:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:35:00
Stage 2 Propellant Load
- T−00:18:30
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:07:00
Engine Chill
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- T−00:00:59
Startup
- T−00:00:45
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:20
Tank Press
- T−00:00:06
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:07
Max-Q
- T+00:03:03
SBECO
- T+00:03:07
Boosters Separation
- T+00:04:02
MECO
- T+00:04:06
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:04:13
SES-1
- T+00:04:31
Fairing Separation
- T+00:07:53
SECO-1
- T+00:47:40
SES-2
- T+00:50:56
SECO-2
- T+01:02:12
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
The mission in perspective
Launch site
DestinationHeliocentric N/A
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Coverage & sources
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