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Jupiter Europa Orbiter
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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]

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In June 2015, a more economical mission, the Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission, renamed into Europa Clipper, was approved by NASA and entered the formulation stage.[3]

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See also

  • Europa Orbiter (former NASA plan cancelled in 2002).
  • Europa Clipper (the next mission plan for Europa, non-nuclear orbiter for Jupiter doing Europa flybys).
  • Europa Lander (NASA) (stand-alone mission for NASA Europa Lander) (Note: there was also a concept for a Europa Clipper add-on lander).

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