Will aerocapture work for a Jupiter orbiter/moon lander? Options

[Guest_Zvezdichko_*]

This is something interesting. But knowing the harsh radiation environment of the giant, I don't know whether it could be used at all. I suppose that a plunge into the atmosphere then achieving a trajectory which leads to a direct encounter with a moon could be used for a lander... Or for a long-living orbiter.

[mchan]

The illustrations I recall of outer planets aerocapture probes have a streamlined shell shaped like the fuselage of a subsonic aircraft. The shell was asymetrically shaped as if the air resistance and corresponding deceleration could be controlled by rolling the shell on the flight tranjectory. This was in some OPAG powerpoint, but I could not find it again on the website.

The blunt aeroshell shown in this thread may caused too high of deceleration. Good for entry probes into Jupiter, but perhaps not for slowing down into orbit.