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English: Technicians test the system to deploy NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft solar arrays, which uses “thermal knives” to cut the restraints holding the solar arrays in place inside the agency’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The Europa Clipper spacecraft will travel to Jupiter’s icy moon to determine its potential to support life. After launch the thermal knives will cut the restraints, allowing the solar arrays to deploy and collect sunlight to power the spacecraft as it begins its journey to investigate Europa.
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Author NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/Frank Michaux
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Kennedy Space Center; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL); NASA; Europa Clipper; JPL; LSP; internal ocean; Jupiter; moon; icy moon; National Aeronautical and Space Administration; Europa; KSC; Jet Propulsion Lab

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