With potential sources of water, energy and other chemicals essential for life, Europa is a top candidate for finding current life in our Solar System outside of Earth. This paper describes the current trajectory design concept for a multiple Europa flyby mission and discusses several trajectory design challenges. The candidate reference trajectory utilizes multiple Europa flybys while around Jupiter to enable near global coverage of Europa while balancing science requirements, radiation dose, propellant usage, and flight time. Trajectory design trades and robustness are also discussed.


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    Title :

    The Europa Mission: Multiple Europa Flyby Trajectory Design Trades and Challenges


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference ; 2015 ; Vail, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-08-09


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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