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Europa Clipper Gets Set of Super-Size Solar Arrays

Will Be the Largest Planetary Exploration Spacecraft Ever Built by NASA

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Tom Patton
Sep 04, 2024
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The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration just got its ‘wings’ — massive solar arrays to power it on the journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

“At the beginning of the project, we really thought it would be nearly impossible to develop a solar array strong enough to hold these gigantic antennas.”
Taejoo Lee, Applied Physics Lab…

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