Sentences with phrase «clipper orbiter mission»

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Its next phase will be the Europa Clipper mission, a Jupiter orbiter launching in the 2020s to study the watery depths beneath the Jovian moon's icy crust.

That's why advocates have pushed for a «Europa Clipper» concept that would spin around the moon in multiple flybys, rather than calling for an orbiter — a more difficult and expensive mission that would subject the spacecraft to much greater doses of radiation from Jupiter.