The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for the JUICE mission - The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. A billion Euros of scienctific goodness. It'll do fly-bys of Europa and Callisto and then go into orbit around Ganymede. It's not going to bloody get there until 2030. I'll be over 60 by then. Harrumph.
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None of this will be discovered in time for me to retire in space. Maybe I can do a Sleeper.
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Launching in 2033. If I'm still around I'll be 83. 
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Apart from our Moon, has any probe ever gone into orbit around a moon? Not sure one has.
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I'm not sure about orbit. But one LANDED on a moon, so it may have gone into orbit first. The Cassini-Huygens mission landed Huygens on Titan, the biggest of Saturn's moons, and sent back pictures, if I remember rightly.Clinton Huxley wrote:Apart from our Moon, has any probe ever gone into orbit around a moon? Not sure one has.
It was weird stuff, with methane rain and snow, or something similar.
The Cassini part kept on orbiting Saturn, sending back data.
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Yeah, remember that landing, plans for a boat to land on Titan now (how cool is that?)mistermack wrote:I'm not sure about orbit. But one LANDED on a moon, so it may have gone into orbit first. The Cassini-Huygens mission landed Huygens on Titan, the biggest of Saturn's moons, and sent back pictures, if I remember rightly.Clinton Huxley wrote:Apart from our Moon, has any probe ever gone into orbit around a moon? Not sure one has.
It was weird stuff, with methane rain and snow, or something similar.
The Cassini part kept on orbiting Saturn, sending back data.
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