Europa Clipper Mission: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- October 14, 2024
- Declared end
- September 30, 2034
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will perform dozens of close flybys of Jupiter's moon Europa, gathering detailed measurements to investigate whether the moon could have conditions suitable for life. Europa Clipper is not a life detection mission - its main science goal is to determine whether there are places below Europa's surface that could support life.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.clipper
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/