Europa Clipper spacecraft has recently been outfitted with the massive dish shaped high gain antenna that will enable it to communicate with mission controllers hundreds of millions of miles away.
The 10 foot high-gain antenna is the largest and most prominent of a suite of antennas on Europa Clipper. The spacecraft will need it to investigate the ice cloaked moon, some 444 million miles from Earth. The goal of the mission is to learn more about the moon’s subsurface ocean, which might harbor a habitable environment.
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