24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... of galactic forces that may influence Earth and life itself. Dr Ingrid Daubar, Project Scientist for NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, explains why Jupiter’s icy moon remains one of the most tantalising targets in the search...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... in 2014, and then half a century later when a mini submarine was successfully plunged under the ice of Europa, a satellite of Jupiter. A great moment of political unification. This technology was not a special achievement, because the autonomous...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... the most detailed images of Jupiter and its moons Europa and Io. The spacecraft also deployed the Galileo probe that... mission concepts had been developed for exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa. The unique challenges in the Jupiter system include the...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
...may seem like an unconventional choice – Jupiter’s smaller moon Europa is commonly regarded as more likely to have the right ...There's good evidence that Jupiter’s icy worlds - Callisto, Europa and Ganymede - hold oceans of liquid water at depth...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... Cf. Joint motion for a resolution on the use of armed drones (2014/2567(RSP)), http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/ getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+MOTION+P7-RC-2014- 0201+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN 19: European Parliamentary Research Service, http://epthinktank...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... there is significant scientific interest in searching for extraterrestrial life: currently this applies only to Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus, with most stringent constraints for sample return missions from these bodies. This...
