Management

Bill Nelson is NASA’s administrator at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.

The Europa Clipper mission is sponsored by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, where Nicola Fox is the associate administrator and Gina DiBraccio is the acting director of the Planetary Science Division. Dave Lavery is the Europa Clipper program executive. Curt Niebur is the program scientist.

The Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, executes program management of the Europa Clipper mission. Scott Bellamy is the mission manager.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and testing, and operations. Jordan Evans is the project manager, and Tim Larson is the deputy project manager. JPL’s Robert Pappalardo is the project scientist, and Bonnie Buratti is the deputy project scientist at JPL.

The Europa Clipper mission is being developed in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Tom Magner is the assistant project manager at APL. Haje Korth is the deputy project scientist at APL.

NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for management of the launch service. For Europa Clipper, Tim Dunn is the launch director, and Armando Piloto is the mission manager.

For more details on Europa Clipper team members, visit the Europa Clipper mission team page.