Subject: Re: Europa Clipper's Earth Departure
From: Daniel Adamo <[email-masked]>
To: "ATIG (A-K)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:06:05 -0700

ATIG Members-

My apologies to all for the size of the attachment (> 15 MB) in the email sent below!  Some of you may not have received it if your ISP intercepts large files.  The attachment in this follow-up is about 30 times smaller and will be the version archived at http://www.aiaahouston.org/adamo_astrodynamics/.

-Dan

From: Daniel Adamo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 07:03
Subject: Europa Clipper's Earth Departure

ATIG Members-

The last NASA flagship mission to orbit a gas giant planet was Cassini at Saturn from 2004 to 2017.  This mission’s many moon flybys and unique perspectives of the planet and its rings were an astrodynamics tour de force, and six ATIG uploads were focused on Cassini exploits.  Following the 14 October 2024 launch of Europa Clipper (EC), a similar period of revelations about Jupiter and its moons appears poised to start in 2030.

The attached PDF file is an account of EC’s launch, Earth departure, and Mars flyby next March.  I hope this is the first of many EC reports published to ATIG distribution over the years ahead.  Enjoy!

-Dan