On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 1:09:00 PM UTC-7, Scott Kozel wrote:


Says nothing about landing or drilling.

"NASA’s goal for this mission is to launch as early as 2023, though it’ll need its SLS launch system to be ready to make that happen.. The extended timeline allows for a launch-ready state by 2025, which seems a bit more realistic given the current state of affairs."

So a rocket in the Saturn V size class is needed for this mission?

According to:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...lipper-mission


"While Europa Clipper won’t land on the surface, it will make more than 40 close
flybys of the moon, probing it with a suite of nine instruments to analyze the
planet’s magnetic field, temperature, and more. Europa occasionally ejects
plumes of water vapor into space, and Europa Clipper could analyze the chemical
composition of the water if it manages to fly through one."