A mission to Europa has been identified as a high priority by the science community for several years. The difficulty of an orbital mission, primarily due to the propulsive requirements and Jupiter's trapped radiation, led to many studies which investigated various approaches to meeting the science goals. The Europa Orbiter Mission studied in the late 1990's only met the most fundamental science objectives. The science objectives have evolved with the discoveries from the Galileo mission. JPL studied one concept, Europa Explorer, for a Europa orbiting mission which could meet a much expanded set of science objectives. A study science group was formed to verify that the science objectives and goals were being adequately met by the resulting mission design concept. The Europa Explorer design emerged primarily from two key self-imposed constraints: 1) meet the full set of identified nonlander science objectives and 2) use only existing technology.


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    Title :

    Europa Explorer - An Exceptional Mission Using Existing Technology


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2007 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2007-03-03



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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