Rank 31 documents Europa Clipper — NASA's Flagship-class mission to assess whether Jupiter's ice moon Europa hosts conditions suitable for life beneath its fractured shell. Launched October 2024 aboard Space Shuttle-era heavyweight heritage translated into a Falcon Heavy stack, the 3,241 kg spacecraft carries ice-penetrating radar REASON, mass spectrometer SUDA, and magnetometer suites protected inside a radiation vault engineered for Jupiter's brutal particle environment. Deputy project scientist Bonnie Buratti and the JPL team inherited decades of Galileo magnetometer hints and Hubble plume observations, turning them into a reconnaissance campaign of 49 close Europa flybys arriving circa 2030. Heritage Collector renders the deployed Clipper against Europa's chaos terrain cutaway and Jovian backdrop exactly as the master PNG dictates — solar wings, plume diagram, and orbit-arc seal included.