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Jupiter Europa Orbiter
As a part of the defunct
Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace
, the
Jupiter
Europa Orbiter
was a
proposed
orbiter
probe
slated for lift-off in
2020
and
planned
for detailed studies of
Jupiter's moons
Europa
and
Io
as well as the
Jovian magnetosphere
. Its main
goal
would have been to
look
for
evidence
of a possible
subsurface ocean
.
In
June 2015
, a more
economical
mission
, the
Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission
was
approved
by
NASA
and
entered
the
formulation
stage.