Jupiter flagship selected |
Jupiter flagship selected |
Feb 18 2009, 03:47 PM
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Jun 17 2009, 10:52 PM
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Up until now the only reasons I have read for extending the launch to 2020 were funding and political.
If ESA approves the Ganymede orbiter mission then it would not be ready until 2020, so one of the reasons for delaying the Europa mission was to launch at the same time and get semi-coordinated science observations of the Jovian system. The other reason for the delay was to allow more money to get the mission up to a roughly 3 billion dollar "sweet spot". There may be technical issues favoring one launch date over the other, but I've never seen any mentioned. |
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