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New ESA Outer Planet Mission Candidates, ESA candidate missions to Outer Planets
jsheff
post Oct 19 2007, 06:02 PM
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The European Space Agency has just released a list of candidate missions for the 2015-2025 time frame. Among then is a mission to explore Titan and Enceladus:

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1IQAMS7F_index_2.html

Is it too ambitious? And how does it jive with the Flagship missions NASA is thinking about?

- John Sheff
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post Oct 20 2007, 03:35 AM
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First, am I reading that article correctly? Out of the nine proposals total, two will be selected? There could easily be no solar system mission if that's true.

No, I personlly don't think it's too ambitious if you're willing to spend the necessary cash for it. The Cassini-Huygens dataset should easily support planning for a mission like this.
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- jsheff   New ESA Outer Planet Mission Candidates   Oct 19 2007, 06:02 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   First, am I reading that article correctly? Out o...   Oct 20 2007, 03:35 AM
- - vjkane   I think that ESA tries to balance its program, so ...   Oct 20 2007, 03:46 AM
- - CAP-Team   Too bad that there aren't any proposals to Ura...   Oct 20 2007, 11:19 AM
- - NMRguy   BBC put out an article on the topic. They make it...   Oct 20 2007, 05:12 PM

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