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

fYear

2010

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SOI Conference (SOI), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1078-621x

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9130-8

Electronic_ISBN

1078-621x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOI.2010.5641049

Filename

5641049