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Jupiter Europa Orbiter

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Reference system
  
Europa orbit

Inclination
  
95°–100°

Launch mass
  
1,371 kg

Operator
  
NASA

Semi-major axis
  
100 km (62 mi)

Orbital insertion
  
2025–2026 (proposed)

Launch date
  
2020

Rockets
  
Delta IV, Ares V, Atlas V

Jupiter Europa Orbiter wwwgiantworldsorgimagesEuropaExplorerjpg

Website
  
ESA Webpage on Laplace/EJSM

Mission duration
  
cruise period 5-6 years, science period 3 years (proposed)

Similar
  
Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter, Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Neptune Orbiter, Pioneer H, Ulysses

Animation of the jupiter europa orbiter s four io flybys


As a part of the defunct Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace (EJSM/Laplace), the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) was a proposed orbiter probe slated for lift-off in 2020 and planned for detailed studies of Jupiter's moons Europa and Io as well as the Jovian magnetosphere. Its main goal would have been to look for evidence of a possible subsurface ocean.

In June 2015, a more economical mission, the Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission (Europa Clipper) was approved by NASA and entered the formulation stage.

References

Jupiter Europa Orbiter Wikipedia