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Europa Clipper’s Mars Flyby Reveals the Hidden Engineering Triumphs Behind Its Ice-Penetrating Radar

A radar on a spacecraft, intended to investigate the mystery of an extraterrestrial ocean, was never completely tested in Earthly chambers because there wasn’t a chamber large enough on our planet.
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NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s got its first views of the asteroid Donaldjohanson in February 2025. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL The Lucy mission is on a 12-year ...