Europa Clipper

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JPL statement issued on Nov. 12, 2024:

While we have taken various measures to meet our current FY’25 budget allocation, we have reached the difficult decision to reduce the JPL workforce through layoffs. This reduction affects approximately 325 of our colleagues, an impact of about 5% of our workforce. The impacts are occurring across technical, business, and support areas of the Laboratory. These are painful but necessary adjustments that will enable us to adhere to our budget while continuing our important work for NASA and our nation.
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JPL Workforce Update

Workforce statement and memo to employees
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Let's wait and see what happens with the Republican's in total control of both houses now. It should not affect Europa Clipper whatever happens in the next four years.
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1861096088868135016
View: https://twitter.com/europaclipper/status/1861096088868135016


This story is really beginning to unfold: While zooming through space at 22 miles per second (35 kilometers per second), our spacecraft has deployed its solar arrays, magnetometer boom, and now the antennas for its ice-penetrating radar instrument
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NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying - NASA

Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a gravity assist.
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