The Jovian Europa Orbiter (JEO) was a feasibility study by the
European Space Agency
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for a mission to
Jupiter's moon
Europa
Europa may refer to:
Places
* Europe
* Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace
* Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro
* Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development
* Europa Clif ...
. JEO would be capable of collecting information about Europa by orbiting it, and would have worked together with the ''Jovian Relay Spacecraft'' (JRS) and the ''Jovian Minisat Explorer'' (JME).
The ''Jovian Europa Orbiter'' was part of ESA's "Technology Reference Studies", which was superseded in 2007 by ESA's "Cosmic Vision", which includes the
Europa Jupiter System Mission
Europa may refer to:
Places
* Europe
* Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace
* Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro
* Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development
* Europa Clif ...
. EJSM was halted in 2011 due to funding issues at that time, which included several spacecraft, and ESA component of that stage was rebooted as
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft in development by the European Space Agency (ESA) with Airbus Defence and Space as the main contractor. The mission will study three of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Ganymede, ...
planned for the 2020s
Spacecraft of Jovian Minisat Explorer
*Jovian Relay Spacecraft
*Jovian Europa Orbiter
*Microprobe
The relay would allow keeping spaceflight hardware out of the intense radiation zones near Europa, but they would be launched and transit to Jupiter together.
References
Europa (moon)
European Space Agency space probes
Cancelled spacecraft
Orbiters (space probe)
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