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NASA's Europa Clipper will explore an

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icy moon of Jupiter to see if there are

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conditions that could support life let's

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head into the spacecraft assembly

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facility behind me to see how the

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mission is coming together

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[Music]

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I'm Raquel Villanueva here today with

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Jordan Evans and Trina Ray before we can

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head inside there is one more step we

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need to take we have to gown up we have

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to protect the spacecraft from us all

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the particles that might fall off of us

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so to cover our hair we have to not wear

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makeup no perfume the Europa Clipper

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mission is a spacecraft that we're

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sending out of the Jupiter system it's

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going to orbit Jupiter that fly by the

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moon Europa and it's a moon that is we

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think has an ocean underneath and we

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want to investigate that we'll be in

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this room until we ship to the Kennedy

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Space Center for our launch campaign in

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the late spring of next year 2024 during

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that time it'll make a couple of trips

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out of this building for testing we have

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so many questions about Europa we have

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an icy crust with an ocean underneath

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and the water that's in that ocean has

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been sort of you know churning and

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stewing for like four billion years and

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so we've got a lot of questions to try

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to answer about the interior or about

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the geology or about the composition to

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answer those scientific questions

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obviously we have to get to Europa first

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so one of the key elements of the

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spacecraft design is being able to bolt

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the spacecraft onto the rocket that'll

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give us the energy we need to get to

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Jupiter and then once we're at Jupiter

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being able to generate electric power

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and accommodate our very large solar

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panels on our very large High Gain

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antenna to send that science data back

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to Earth and all that has to be done

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with materials that are safe for the

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immense radiation environment at Europa

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Jordan what are we looking at here

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starting at the far end that's the

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interface of the launch vehicle that's

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where we vote Europa Clipper to the

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Falcon heavy rocket and from there that

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cylindrical portion inside there are

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propulsion tanks there's that red cover

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which is protecting some sensitive

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Communications Electronics where our

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large High Gain antenna mounts and

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you'll see there's some paper on the

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outside and those are actually patterns

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for the sewing that's required on our

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thermal blankets thermal blankets with

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the right Optical properties to maintain

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the temperatures of the vehicle as well

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as provide protection from micro meteors

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Trina can you kind of tell us more about

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the instruments that we can see here we

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don't have all of our instruments on

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board yet but what we do have is over

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here kind of around this way are three

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of our cameras they're installed on that

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far piece right there we have cameras

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that operate in The Invisible

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we have cameras that operate in the

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infrared hamburgers operate in the

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ultraviolet those all look at Europa at

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the same time just in different

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wavelengths but then we also have a

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thermal imager so think of that as like

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the like the night vision goggles right

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so what you're looking for there is a

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thermal signature so imagine you have

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this ocean and it's churning away and it

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makes the ice right above it a little

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bit warm and so the thermal imager will

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be able to tell you that and seeing this

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spacecraft up close I just want to know

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what does this mission mean to the both

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of you it represents the hundreds of

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thousands the millions of hours of the

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dedicated engineers and technicians and

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scientists I treasure my job every day I

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come to work and I'm like we're gonna do

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our part we're going to answer these

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questions but we're going to ask the

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next questions for the Next Generation

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to be inspired and to build their

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thanks for watching spacecraft makers if

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you have any questions about Europa