Title :
Engineering a solution to jupiter exploration
Author :
Clark, Karla ; Magner, Thomas ; Lisano, Michael ; Pappalardo, Robert
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) which consists of two primary elements namely: the NASA-led Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), and the ESA-led Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO), would be an international mission with the overall theme of investigating the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants. Its goals are to (1) explore Europa to investigate its habitability, (2) characterize Ganymede as a planetary object including its potential habitability and (3) explore the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants. NASA and ESA have concluded a detailed joint study of a mission to Europa, Ganymede, and the Jupiter system with conceptual orbiters developed by NASA and ESA.
Keywords :
aerospace instrumentation; planetary atmospheres; space vehicles; EJSM; Europa Jupiter System Mission; JEO; JGO; Jupiter Europa Orbiter; Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter; gas giant planets; planetary object; Instruments; Jupiter; Orbits; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Space vehicles; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
SOI Conference (SOI), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9130-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1078-621x
DOI :
10.1109/SOI.2010.5641049