NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest spacecraft NASA ever built for a mission headed to another planet, Europa Clipper also is the first NASA mission dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth.
Does anyone know why the plan is “49 orbits”? That seems like a high number if it can’t stop but a low number if it achieves orbit of Jupiter
…. Plus why all the downvotes? This is inspirational science, in a science community