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[MarcF]

I just read in a French astronomical magazine (Ciel et Espace) about the next proposals for future ESA missions (window 2015-2025), and especially about the Laplace mission to Jupiter and Europa.
Some info might be found here: http://jupiter-europa.cesr.fr/
Like Bepi Colombo, the mission should be composed of several spacecrafts: a Jupiter Planetary Orbiter (JPO), a Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter (JMO) and a Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), and may be even an Europa lander.
Of course this would be done in collaboration with Nasa and Japan.
I read also about a collaboration with the JUNO spacecraft.
Any chance this will once become a reality ?
Marc.

[Guest_Geographer_*]

It seems pertinent to suggest ESA and NASA should coordinate missions to Jupiter and Europa to avoid redundancies. The NASA OPAG reports have several mission ideas to Jupiter and Europa around the same time scale. ESA could send a probe to Jupiter and NASA a probe to Saturn or Neptune, or at least use different instruments if they're both going to Jupiter.

[djellison]

It seems pertinent to suggest ESA and NASA should coordinate missions to Jupiter and Europa....

And Saturn and Titan and Enceladus.

Doug