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Jupiter Europa Orbiter

Jupiter Europa Orbiter

Montage with JEO
Mission type	Europa orbiter
Operator	NASA
Website	ESA Webpage on Laplace/EJSM
Mission duration	cruise period: 6 years (proposed), science period: 3 years (proposed)
Spacecraft properties
Launch mass	1371 kg
Start of mission
Launch date	2020 (proposed)
Rocket	Delta IV-HorAtlas V
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Europa orbit
Inclination	95°–100°
Europa orbiter
Orbital insertion	2026 (proposed)
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As a part of the defunct Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace (EJSM-Laplace), the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) was a proposed orbiter probe slated for lift-off in 2020 and planned for detailed studies of Jupiter's moons Europa and Io as well as the Jovian magnetosphere.^[1] Its main goal would have been to look for evidence of a possible subsurface ocean.^[2]

In June 2015, a more economical mission, the Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission (Europa Clipper) was approved by NASA and entered the formulation stage.^[3]

See also[edit]

• Europa Orbiter (former NASA plan cancelled in 2002).
• Europa Clipper (the next mission plan for Europa, non-nuclear orbiter for Jupiter doing Europa flybys).
• Europa Lander (NASA) (stand-alone mission for NASA Europa Lander) (Note: there was also a concept for a Europa Clipper add-on lander).

References[edit]

1. ^ Battersby, Stephen (5 November 2009). "A drop in the bucket is plenty". The National. Retrieved 8 November 2009.

^ Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) Concept Archived 2011-04-26 at the Wayback Machine This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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