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Europa Clipper Sails Toward Launch

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Using a Cot to Cover a Hemisphere of Eurasia

Jupiter's orbit is sized so that its encounters with europa are kind of in resonance with the europa orbit. So you could think ofa fly bys being organized like six or seven at a time to achieve coverage. From north to south, each fly by is getting some covering some new territory.

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