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The
Jovian Europa Orbiter
(
JEO
) was a feasibility study by the
European Space Agency
for a mission to
Jupiter's
moon
Europa
.
[1]
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was part of ESA's "Technology Reference Studies", which was superseded in 2007 by ESA's "Cosmic Vision",
[2]
which includes the
Europa Jupiter System Mission
. 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
planned for the 2020s
Spacecraft of Jovian Minisat Explorer
[3]
- 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.
[4]
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