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Europa Planetary Protection for Juno Jupiter OrbiterNASA's Juno mission launched in 2011 and will explore the Jupiter system starting in 2016. Juno's suite of instruments is designed to investigate the atmosphere, gravitational fields, magnetic fields, and auroral regions. Its low perijove polar orbit will allow it to explore portions of the Jovian environment never before visited. While the Juno mission is not orbiting or flying close to Europa or the other Galilean satellites, planetary protection requirements for avoiding the contamination of Europa have been taken into account in the Juno mission design.The science mission is designed to conclude with a deorbit burn that disposes of the spacecraft in Jupiter's atmosphere. Compliance with planetary protection requirements is verified through a set of analyses including analysis of initial bioburden, analysis of the effect of bioburden reduction due to the space and Jovian radiation environments, probabilistic risk assessment of successful deorbit, Monte-Carlo orbit propagation, and bioburden reduction in the event of impact with an icy body.
Document ID
20140002108
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Bernard, Douglas E.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Abelson, Robert D.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Johannesen, Jennie R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lam, Try
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
McAlpine, William J.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Newlin, Laura E.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
March 20, 2014
Publication Date
July 21, 2010
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Meeting Information
Meeting: COSPAR Scientific Assembly
Location: Bremen
Country: Germany
Start Date: July 18, 2010
End Date: July 25, 2010
Sponsors: Committee on Space Research
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Juno
Jupiter
icy moon
planetary protection

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