Nasa spacecraft to blast off on mission to find out if Jupiter moon may hold life

The six-ton spacecraft will fly past Mars and swing back around Earth before slingshotting out to Jupiter

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Clipper spacecraft sits on launch pad 39A before the launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 14, 2024. Picture: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Nasa is sending a spacecraft to a frosty moon of Jupiter where extraterrestrial life may eke out an existence in an enormous ocean hidden beneath its ice-covered surface.

The Europa Clipper mission was due to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday after the original plan to launch on Thursday was scrapped due to the battering winds brought by Hurricane Milton.