Mission type | Europa orbiter |
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Operator | NASA |
Website | ESA Webpage on Laplace/EJSM |
Mission duration | cruise period: 6 years (proposed), science period: 3 years (proposed) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Launch mass | 1371 kg |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 2020 (proposed) |
Rocket | Delta IV-H or Atlas V |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Europa orbit |
Inclination | 95°–100° |
Europa orbiter | |
Orbital insertion | 2026 (proposed) |
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. [1] Its main goal would have been to look for evidence of a possible subsurface ocean. [2]
In June 2015, a more economical mission, the Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission ( Europa Clipper) was approved by NASA and entered the formulation stage. [3]