/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.8450617]

how much would it cost to send a rover to Europa?

[Anonymous No.8450621]

>>8450617
Three fiddy

[Anonymous No.8450660]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.8450951]

>>8450617
It's a big sum

[Anonymous No.8451081]

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.

[Anonymous No.8451090]

>>8451081
That's a pretty cool image

[Anonymous No.8451402]

>>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

[Anonymous No.8451561]

>>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

[Anonymous No.8451766]

>>8450951
for you

[Anonymous No.8451771]

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.

[Anonymous No.8451790]

>>8450617
You don't a rover. You want a probe able to perforate the ice.

[Anonymous No.8451898]

RC speed boat on Titan when?

[Anonymous No.8452644]

>>8451081
> no Pluto
>no aerobraking at Sun
> no lithobraking

[Anonymous No.8453351]

>>8452644
>lithobraking

[Anonymous No.8453358]

>>8451790
Europa has water geysers that shoot through the ice. So we probably wouldn't need to drill through the ice