NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper. The largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary mission is now on a multi-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, and loaded with equipment to study its potential to support life. The mission had been in doubt after researchers found some of the Europa Clipper’s transistors would fail under Jupiter’s extreme radiation levels. But the mission is in motion, due in part to progress on efforts involving Hugh Barnaby, a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools. Barnaby has been helping to maximize radiation monitoring to mitigate its problematic effects.