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Europa Clipper Propulsion Module

Europa Clipper's propulsion module in its shipping container
Source: Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
Published: July 12, 2021

Europa Clipper's propulsion module arrives in a shipping container at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on June 23, 2021.

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