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NASA invites ESA to provide a lander to its Europa mission

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  • 19-04-2015 9:47am
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    namloc1980
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    This article discusses how NASA have reached out to the European Space Agency to see if they are interested in providing a Europan lander to fly on NASAs Europa Clipper mission which is due to launch in the next decade.

    Hopefully they take up the offer and provide a landing element. This is likely to be the only potential lander for Europa for the next few decades. Here's a potential penetrator concept:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQXxqhuIUI


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    _Tombstone_
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    I'll bump this.

    It's looking like this is getting pushed back to the mid 2020s and that's just for a take off BUT by then the SLS should be ready and that'll get it there in 4.6 yrs and even though it can drag up 70 Tonnes, weight is still gonna be an issue then when it gets there they're gonna take pics of it for a few years to find somewhere active BUT THEN they're gonna land on it!

    Planning to break out the Sky Crane from Mars to drop her down, planning on putting Bots in the lander that they can drop down holes.

    The Clipper is gonna have a plume probe that they can drop down holes from a 2km orbit.

    All sounds flipping great except for the time it's gonna take and the lander only having a 10 day battery life.

    MORE INFO HERE.


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