JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system Options

[machi]

Yellow book is available (13.1.2012) - JUICE.

[stevesliva]

Would be nice if the continuing presence continued more places than LEO. At a minimum Mars and Jupiter. But one can easily dream of the rest.

[StargazeInWonder]

The inner jovian system has radiation to prohibit long lifetimes and the outer jovian system would exclude the targets of highest interest.

Future telescopes are going to have amazing resolution of Jupiter from Earth, so monitoring Jupiter from the vicinity of Callisto or farther wouldn't add much value, either.

[Bjorn Jonsson]

Future telescopes are going to have amazing resolution of Jupiter from Earth, so monitoring Jupiter from the vicinity of Callisto or farther wouldn't add much value, either.

It's correct that future telescopes will have amazing resolution. However they will be busy observing many different targets and can observe Jupiter only occasionally (this is also true today for the largest groundbased telescopes). So observations by amateur astronomers (or a spacecraft imaging Jupiter from Callisto's orbit or farther out) are still going to be highly valuable because of their time resolution.

And this is an updated ESA animation showing the JUICE trajectory and the dates of several major mission events:
https://youtu.be/Fw17N3rdN7s