2nd LD-Writethru: NASA, SpaceX launch new mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- NASA and SpaceX launched a new mission to Jupiter on Monday to study Jupiter's moon Europa.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is NASA's largest planetary spacecraft, launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at 12:06 p.m. Eastern Time from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida.

Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of