NASA's Europa Clipper Gets Set of Super-Size Solar Arrays
August 27, 2024
August 27, 2024
PASADENA, California, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each measuring about 46 1/2 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13 1/2 feet (4.1 meters) high, the arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. They have to be large so they can soak up as much sunlight as possible duri . . .
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each measuring about 46 1/2 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13 1/2 feet (4.1 meters) high, the arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. They have to be large so they can soak up as much sunlight as possible duri . . .