The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, where an...
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede...
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proposed to flyby or orbit Ganymede, but were either not selected for funding or cancelled before launch. The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter would have studied...
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January 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011. "Exploring Jupiter – JIMO – Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter – the moon Callisto". Space Today Online. Archived from the...
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or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It...
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The Galilean moons (/ˌɡælɪˈleɪ.ən/), or Galilean satellites, are the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They are the most...
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Europa Clipper (category Missions to Jupiter)
with projects such as Europa Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, in which a spacecraft would be injected into orbit around Europa. However, due to...
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oʊ/), or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the...
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lander missions. NASA's JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter), which was canceled in 2005, and a European Jovian Europa Orbiter mission were also studied, but...
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larger icy moons, which may have subsurface liquid oceans. Funding difficulties have delayed progress, causing NASA's JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter) to be...
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/æməlˈθiːə/ is a moon of Jupiter. It has the third-closest orbit around Jupiter among known moons and was the fifth moon of Jupiter to be discovered,...
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Prometheus Nuclear Systems and Technology included: Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Exploration of the Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Originally planned...
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detailed studies of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede and Callisto, as well as the Jovian magnetosphere. It was superseded by the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer in April...
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The Europa Orbiter was a planned NASA mission to Jupiter's Moon Europa, that was cancelled in 2002. Its main objectives included determining the presence...
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have more irregular moons than Jupiter. Discovery of outer planet moons Moons of Jupiter Moons of Saturn Moons of Uranus Moons of Neptune The modern...
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Icy moons are a class of natural satellites with surfaces composed mostly of ice. An icy moon may harbor an ocean underneath the surface, and possibly...
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Lander (spacecraft) (section Moons of Jupiter)
proposed as part of NASA's Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission that was canceled in 2006. ESA launched the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission...
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desired orbit. A distant retrograde orbit was one of the proposed orbits around Europa for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter—principally for its projected stability...
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Jupiter Europa Orbiter Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter Jupiter Magnetospheric Orbiter Io Volcano Observer Colonization of Europa Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Europa...
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List of NASA missions (section Jupiter)
Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (MAX-C) Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) Asteroid Redirect...
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Management Optimization, an international journal Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, a formerly proposed NASA probe to Jupiter and Europa Journal of the International Meteor...
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Mars, and the second highest among all Solar System moons, after Jupiter's moon Io. The body of the Moon is differentiated and terrestrial, with no significant...
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develop the Project Prometheus nuclear power source for the JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter) project, however, funding for this program was cancelled in the...
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ground-tested in 2003 by NASA and was intended for use on the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, which was canceled in 2005. The HiPEP thruster differs from earlier...
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List of natural satellites (redirect from List of Solar System moons)
(100 yd). Jupiter has 95 moons with known orbits; 72 of them have received permanent designations, and 57 have been named. Its eight regular moons are grouped...
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Saturn (redirect from Orbit of Saturn)
and, like Phoebe, orbits in retrograde fashion. Some of the moons of Saturn, including Pandora and Prometheus, act as shepherd moons to confine the rings...
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Natural satellite (redirect from Moons)
planet The Moon, Earth's natural satellite Moons of Mars Moons of Jupiter Moons of Saturn Moons of Uranus Moons of Neptune Minor-planet moon Moons of Pluto...
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Plant, shown here in tests on the Earth, launched into orbit in the 1960s. Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. A long boom holds the reactor at a distance, while...
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given NASA's budget, so ESA continued with its initiative, called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that will be based on the JGO design. Selection of...
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