The Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission. Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory leads the development of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with APL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. A prototype HGA underwent testing at the ETR in 2019. Though there are other facilities around the country that can accommodate similar testing, the ETR’s size, accessibility and availability made it a perfect location for the HGA. The ETR is an indoor electromagnetic test facility that allows researchers to characterize transmitters, receivers, antennas, and other electromagnetic components and subsystems in a controlled environment. That data will take approximately 45 minutes to reach Earth from orbit around Jupiter. That higher frequency will give Europa Clipper plenty of bandwidth to send data back at high rates. Thirty-two GHz is many times higher than the frequency of most cell phones. The HGA operates on NASA deep space X-band radio frequencies of 7.2 and 8.4 (GHz), and Ka-band at 32 (GHz). In fact, there could be more liquid water on Europa than on Earth yet it is smaller than our Moon. Scientists have strong evidence that Europa is home to a vast and deep subsurface ocean of water that could potentially support life. The approximately 10-foot-diameter HGA will beam back information from Europa Clipper’s nine instruments, which will gather data on Europa’s atmosphere, surface and interior. Between those visits to Langley, the HGA went to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for vibration and thermal vacuum testing to check its ability to withstand both the shaking of launch and the temperature extremes of space, respectively.
The High-Gain antenna (HGA) for NASA’s Europa Clipper, which will conduct nearly 50 flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, was at Langley’s Experimental Test Range (ETR) in March and April and then again in June and July so researchers could assess its ability to precisely beam data from the spacecraft back to Earth. Your tickets may be exchanged for any future event.The Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna that has been developed to make the long journey to begin orbiting around Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in the outer Solar System recently finished its second round of testing this year at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. "Are Standard Business Funding Tools Right for You?Īlternative Sources of Working Capital for Small and Growing Businesses" Running concurrently from 8am-5pm are workshops, lectures and panel discussions. Small Business Procurement Initiatives Luncheon - Contracting with Booz Allen Hamilton.Army Contracting Command Redstone Arsenal The conference features three general sessions The Huntsville-Redstone Arsenal Small Business Contracting Conference & Expo will be located in the south and east halls of the Von Braun Center utilizing 150,000 sq.ft. Is also home to the Von Braun Center, named for rocket pioneer Huntsville, Alabama the Rocket City, home to Redstone Arsenal,
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