This contribution, if found to be scientifically meaningful and affordable, could become a proposal to the ESA Cosmic Vision science programme. As a potential piggyback contribution to NASA's Europa mission, a flyby mission dedicated to the moon Io or a surface package (penetrator) on Europa would offer a perfect complement to the other Jovian missions.įollowing an ESA-NASA bilateral agreement, a mutual interest has been expressed for a contribution of ESA, as a junior partner, to NASA's Europa mission.
While JUNO will focus on the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa mission will be dedicated to the eponymous moon, and JUICE will mostly focus on the moon Ganymede.
CLIPPER START SERIES
Further details can be found in the CDF study reports for CLEO and CLEP.Ĭontents of this page Mission justificationįollowing the successful Galileo mission - the only mission to date to have orbited Jupiter - a series of missions towards the Jovian system are currently in development: NASA's JUNO (en route to Jupiter), NASA's Europa Mission (formerly known as Clipper and currently in phase A), and ESA's JUICE (now in phase B, with launch planned for 2022). The purpose of these studies is to support the European science community in defining a potential mission of opportunity (for example, as a junior partner of NASA's Europa mission) to investigate Jupiter and its moons in the frame of future Cosmic Vision calls.Ī brief outline of the CLEO and CLEP concepts is given below. Clipper ESA Orbiter (CLEO) and Clipper ESA Penetrator (CLEP)ĮSA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) has completed studies of the Clipper ESA Orbiter (CLEO) and Clipper ESA Penetrator (CLEP).
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