NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and its partner are planning a mission to explore an icy moon of Jupiter, Europa. The objective of the planned Europa Clipper mission is to gain insight into the key ingredients for this potentially habitable world. This mission will conduct investigations using a suite of instruments that includes a set of five remote sensing instruments, four in-situ fields and particles instruments, and a two-channel ice-penetrating radar. Among its science objectives are to produce high-resolution images of Europa's surface, determine its composition, look for signs of recent or ongoing activity, measure the thickness of the ice shell, search for subsurface lakes, and determine the depth and salinity of Europa's ocean. Europa Clipper is expected to encounter a very challenging environment, particularly in radiation. This paper provides a comprehensive description of the challenging environments and the environmental requirements that are levied onto the Europa Clipper system design. The mitigations activities being conducted or planned to ensure compliance with the severe environments will be described. Also discussed will be how the environmental requirements are verified and at which level of integration to ensure mission success.


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    Title :

    Environmental Requirements and Verification for NASA’s Planned Europa Clipper


    Contributors:
    Man, Kin F. (author)

    Publication date :

    2018-04-09


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English