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Star Tracker Integration
Source:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published:
May 24, 2022
Engineers handle Europa Clipper’s star trackers and nadir deck in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. With red covers to protect their optics, the star trackers’ telescopes stick out diagonally like the eyes of a frog or insect. Star trackers will tell Europa Clipper’s computers how the spacecraft is oriented in space, which is essential for both performing science observations and for understanding data from science instruments.