Science Goals and Mission Architecture of the Europa Lander Mission Concept
Author(s) -
K. P. Hand,
C. B. Phillips,
Alison E. Murray,
J. B. Garvin,
Earl Maize,
Roger Gibbs,
G. D. Reeves,
A. Miguel San Martin,
Grace Tan-Wang,
Joel Krajewski,
K. Hurst,
Ray Crum,
B. A. Kennedy,
T. P. McElrath,
John C. Gallon,
D. Sabahi,
S. W. Thurman,
B. Goldstein,
Polly Estabrook,
S. W. Lee,
Jennifer Dooley,
W. B. Brinckerhoff,
K. S. Edgett,
Christopher R. German,
Tori M. Hoehler,
Sarah M. Hörst,
J. I. Lunine,
C. Paranicas,
K. Nealson,
David E. Smith,
Alexis S. Templeton,
Michael J. Russell,
B. E. Schmidt,
Brent C. Christner,
B. L. Ehlmann,
A. G. Hayes,
A. R. Rhoden,
Paul Willis,
R. A. Yingst,
K. L. Craft,
M. E. Cameron,
Tom Nordheim,
J. Pitesky,
J. E. C. Scully,
Jason D. Hofgartner,
Steven W. Sell,
Kevin Barltrop,
Jacob Izraelevitz,
Erik J. Brandon,
Jessica Seong,
JohnPaul Jones,
Jasmina Pasalic,
Keith J. Billings,
Juan P. Ruiz,
Ratnakumar Bugga,
D. Graham,
L. A. Arenas,
D. Takeyama,
Mark Drummond,
Hrand Aghazarian,
Allen Andersen,
Katie B. Andersen,
E. W. Anderson,
Alessandra Babuscia,
Paul Backes,
Elizabeth Bailey,
D. Balentine,
Christopher G. Ballard,
Daniel Berisford,
Pradeep Bhandari,
Krys Blackwood,
Gary S. Bolotin,
Emilee Bovre,
Joseph Bowkett,
K. Boykins,
M. S. Bramble,
T. M. Brice,
Paul Briggs,
Alex Brinkman,
Sawyer Brooks,
Brent Buffington,
B. R. A. Burns,
Morgan L. Cable,
Stefano Campagnola,
L. Alberto Cangahuala,
Gregory Carr,
J. Casani,
Nacer Chahat,
Brendan Chamberlain-Simon,
Yun-Ting Cheng,
Steve Chien,
Brant Cook,
M. Cooper,
Michael DiNicola,
Bradley J. Clement,
Zachary Dean,
E. A. Cullimore,
Aaron Curtis,
J-P. de la Croix,
Peter Di Pasquale,
Emma Dodd,
L. A. Dubord,
Jeffrey A. Edlund,
Raymond Ellyin,
Blair Emanuel,
J. Foster,
Anthony Ganino,
G. J. Garner,
Mike Gibson,
Matthew Gildner,
Kenneth Glazebrook,
Martin Greco,
W. M. Green,
Sara Hatch,
M. M. Hetzel,
William Hoey,
Amy E. Hofmann,
Rodica Ionasescu,
Abhinandan Jain,
Jay Jasper,
Jennie R. Johannesen,
Garrett Johnson,
Insoo Jun,
Anup Katake,
So Young Kim-Castet,
D. I. Kim,
W. Kim,
Emily Klonicki,
Brad Kobeissi,
B. D. Kobie,
J. Kochocki,
M. Kokorowski,
Jacob Kosberg,
Kristopher Kriechbaum,
Tejas Kulkarni,
Raymond Lam,
Damon Landau,
Myra Lattimore,
Sharon Laubach,
Chris Lawler,
Grace Lim,
Justin Lin,
Todd Litwin,
M. W. Lo,
C. Logan,
E. Maghasoudi,
Lukas Mandrake,
Yuliya Marchetti,
Eloïse Marteau,
Kimberly Maxwell,
J. B. Mc Namee,
Ocean Mcintyre,
Michael B. Meacham,
Joseph Melko,
Juergen Mueller,
David Muliere,
Ashwin Mysore,
Jeremy Nash,
Hiro Ono,
Jeff Parker,
Rebecca Perkins,
Anastassios E. Petropoulos,
Aaron Gaut,
M. Y. Piette Gomez,
Raul Polit Casillas,
Michael Preudhomme,
Guy Pyrzak,
Jacqueline Rapinchuk,
J. M. Ratliff,
T. L. Ray,
Eric Roberts,
Kenneth Roffo,
D. C. Roth,
Joseph Russino,
Timo Schmidt,
Marcel Schoppers,
Juan Senent,
Fred Serricchio,
Doug Sheldon,
Lori Shiraishi,
J. Shirvanian,
Katie J. Siegel,
Gurkirpal Singh,
Allen Sirota,
Eli D. Skulsky,
Joseph Stehly,
Nathan Strange,
Sarah Stevens,
Eric Sunada,
Scott Tepsuporn,
Luis Phillipe Tosi,
Nikolas Trawny,
I. Uchenik,
Vandi Verma,
R. Volpe,
Caleb Wagner,
D. Wang,
Reg G. Willson,
John Luke Wolff,
Andre Wong,
Aline K. Zimmer,
K. G. Sukhatme,
K. A. Bago,
Y. Chen,
Alyssa Deardorff,
R. S. Kuch,
Christopher Lim,
Marguerite Syvertson,
G. Arakaki,
A. Avila,
Kevin DeBruin,
Andreas Frick,
J. R. Harris,
M. Heverly,
Jessie Kawata,
S.-K. Kim,
D. Kipp,
Jonathan Murphy,
Matthew W. Smith,
Matthew Spaulding,
Rohan Thakker,
N. Z. Warner,
Christopher Yahnker,
Margo Young,
Thomas J. Magner,
Danica Adams,
P. Bedini,
Lauren Mehr,
Colin Sheldon,
Steven R. Ver,
V. Bailey,
Marc A. Briere,
M. Butler,
A. K. Davis,
Susan Ensor,
Michele Gan,
Amanda Haapala-Chalk,
Ted Hartka,
Mark E. Holdridge,
Alan S. Hong,
J.W. Hunt,
J. Iskow,
F. Kahler,
Kate Murray,
David Napolillo,
Michael Norkus,
Richard N. Pfisterer,
John N. Porter,
P. Schwartz,
Lawrence Wolfarth,
Eric H. Cardiff,
Eric Grob,
Junka Adam,
Erin M. Betts,
J. Norwood,
Melissa Heller,
Tyler Voskuilen,
Philip Sakievich,
Leven B. Gray,
Dougal Hansen,
Kevin Irick,
John C. Hewson,
Joshua Lamb,
Shawn Stacy,
Christopher M. Brotherton,
Alexander S. Tappan,
D. Benally,
H. Thigpen,
Estefan Ortiz,
D. Sandoval,
Aaron M. Ison,
Maria Warren,
P. G. Stromberg,
Paul Thelen,
B. Blasy,
Prabal Nandy,
Abigail Haddad,
L. B. Trujillo,
T. H. Wiseley,
Sally Bell,
N. P. Teske,
C Post,
Loraine Torres-Castro,
Christopher Grosso,
M. Wasiolek
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the planetary science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2632-3338
DOI - 10.3847/psj/ac4493
Subject(s) - astrobiology , architecture , schedule , computer science , earth science , engineering , systems engineering , aerospace engineering , geology , geography , physics , archaeology , operating system
Europa is a premier target for advancing both planetary science and astrobiology, as well as for opening a new window into the burgeoning field of comparative oceanography. The potentially habitable subsurface ocean of Europa may harbor life, and the globally young and comparatively thin ice shell of Europa may contain biosignatures that are readily accessible to a surface lander. Europa’s icy shell also offers the opportunity to study tectonics and geologic cycles across a range of mechanisms and compositions. Here we detail the goals and mission architecture of the Europa Lander mission concept, as developed from 2015 through 2020. The science was developed by the 2016 Europa Lander Science Definition Team (SDT), and the mission architecture was developed by the preproject engineering team, in close collaboration with the SDT. In 2017 and 2018, the mission concept passed its mission concept review and delta-mission concept review, respectively. Since that time, the preproject has been advancing the technologies, and developing the hardware and software, needed to retire risks associated with technology, science, cost, and schedule.
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