NASA is poised to launch Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, as early as October 10. The spacecraft will blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It will study Europa, a possible home for extraterrestrial life, through a series of flybys after reaching Jupiter in 2030.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to launch on October 10, 2024, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, where evidence suggests potential life-sustaining ingredients exist. The mission aims to assess the moon's ocean beneath its icy crust over six years and includes 49 flybys.