KerbalX

Details

• Type: VAB
• Class: probe
• Part Count: 65
• Mods: 13
• KSP: 1.10.0

Description

A mod rocket called Europa Clipper. Built with 65 of the finest parts, its root part is ROT-ProbeCore.

Built in the VAB in KSP version 1.10.0.

Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is an interplanetary mission in development by NASA comprising an orbiter. Set for a launch in 2024, the spacecraft is being developed to study the Galilean moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter.

This mission is a scheduled flight of the Planetary Science Division, designated a Large Strategic Science Mission, and funded under the Planetary Missions Program Office’s Solar System Exploration program as its second flight. It is also supported by the new Ocean Worlds Exploration Program. Europa Clipper will perform follow-up studies to those made by the Galileo spacecraft during its eight years in Jupiter orbit, which indicated the existence of a subsurface ocean underneath Europa’s ice crust. Plans to send a spacecraft to Europa were initially conceived with projects such as Europa Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, in which a spacecraft would be injected into orbit around Europa. However, due to the adverse effects of radiation from Jupiter’s magnetosphere in Europa orbit, it was decided that it would be safer to inject a spacecraft into an elliptical orbit around Jupiter and make 44 close flybys of the moon instead. The mission began as a joint investigation between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and will be built with a scientific payload of nine instruments contributed by JPL, APL, Southwest Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University and University of Colorado Boulder.

The mission will complement ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer launching in 2022, which will fly-by Europa twice and Callisto multiple times before moving into orbit around Ganymede. They may launch within a year of each other, but the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer may have a cruise phase almost three times as long. This would be the case if Europa Clipper launches on the Space Launch System and uses a direct trajectory to Jupiter. If another launch vehicle and Earth or other gravity assists are used, the two missions would arrive at more similar times.

Mods

• Bluedog DB
• Ferram Aerospace Research
• KW Rocketry
• ProbesPlus!
• ProbesPlus
• Procedural Fairings
• Procedural Parts - MainSailor’s Procedural Textures - Complete Texture Pack
• Procedural Parts
• RO Tanks
• Real Scale Boosters
• Squad (stock)
• US and Soviet Solar Panels Pack
• roengines