Share with friends and circle of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > < p > news on July 24, Europa clipper & nbsp; of Europa probe of NASA The SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket will travel to the Jupiter system. NASA will pay SpaceX $178 million and plans to launch the probe in October 2024 p> < p > the Europa clipper project was approved by NASA in 2015. The probe will fly 45 times over Europa to explore the cold world. Researchers believe that there is a large ocean under Europa's ice shell, and the instruments equipped on Europa's fast sail will help researchers find out whether there are signs of life in Europa's ocean p> < p > for many years, according to the law, the Europa express must be launched by NASA's giant rocket space launch system (SLS). However, due to the continued delay and budget overrun of the SLS project, NASA has urged the U.S. Congress to consider allowing Europa express to travel to the Jupiter system through commercial launch activities. NASA's inspector general said in 2019 that switching to other spacecraft could save up to $1 billion p> < p > finally, NASA obtained the license to consider the commercial alternatives of SLS in the 2021 budget, and soon began to formally look for commercial partners p> < p > despite budget overruns and repeated delays, the US Congress has maintained the costly SLS project for many years. The first flight of SLS was originally planned in 2017. However, the test of SLS's unmanned flight around the moon has been postponed until November 2021. According to the NASA inspector general's office, the implementation of the adjusted plan is still "very unlikely" p> < p > SpaceX launched the Falcon heavy rocket for the first time in 2018 and started to launch satellites in 2019. Earlier this year, NASA planned to send two parts of the lunar orbiting space station into space with a falcon heavy rocket( Chen Chen) < / P > < p >