how much would it cost to send a rover to Europa?
>>8450617
Three fiddy
>>8450617
The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission is budgeted at $1.1 billion, which could potentially include a Russian-built Ganymede lander called Laplace-P budgeted at $1.52 million, and they've said that a Europa lander isn't "within the scope of the mission's budget."
So more than $1,101,520,000 I guess.
>>8450617
It's a big sum
lotta delta-v needed to make it to europa's surface
until you have reusable rockets, that's gonna be expensive or a really small rover.
>>8451081
That's a pretty cool image
>>8451081
Huh, a difference of 1.49 km/s between going to Ganymede and going to Europa, yet the Russians and ESA are considering a budget change for a Europa lander to be "outside scope." Wonder how expensive that last 1.49 km/s is
>>8451402
its just physics, another 1.5km/s, for a lander, needs another 350kg of fuel at the far end, for a 550kg lander. If the rocket itself can't deliver that payload to europa, then no amount of money changes that.
Also looks like the higher radiation environment at europa played a role
>>8450951
for you
A lot. First you'd have to build a soundstage with a roof that's thick enough to conceal your lie from god, then you have to shell out for a copy of photoshop.
>>8450617
You don't a rover. You want a probe able to perforate the ice.
RC speed boat on Titan when?
>>8451081
> no Pluto
>no aerobraking at Sun
> no lithobraking
>>8452644
>lithobraking
>>8451790
Europa has water geysers that shoot through the ice. So we probably wouldn't need to drill through the ice