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Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378289%3A_____%2F22%3A00565945" target="_blank" >RIV/68378289:_____/22:00565945 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11320/22:10456796

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03" target="_blank" >10.3847/PSJ/ac9c03</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission

  • Original language description

    Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, possesses an internal water ocean and jets expelling ocean material into space. Cassini investigations indicated that the subsurface ocean could be a habitable environment having a complex interaction with the rocky core. Further investigation of the composition of the plume formed by the jets is necessary to fully understand the ocean, its potential habitability, and what it tells us about Enceladus’s origin. Moonraker has been proposed as an ESA M-class mission designed to orbit Saturn and perform multiple flybys of Enceladus, focusing on traversals of the plume. The proposed Moonraker mission consists of an ESA-provided platform with strong heritage from JUICE and Mars Sample Return and carrying a suite of instruments dedicated to plume and surface analysis. The nominal Moonraker mission has a duration of ∼13.5 yr. It includes a 23-flyby segment with 189 days allocated for the science phase and can be expanded with additional segments if resources allow. The mission concept consists of investigating (i) the habitability conditions of present-day Enceladus and its internal ocean, (ii) the mechanisms at play for the communication between the internal ocean and the surface of the South Polar Terrain, and (iii) the formation conditions of the moon. Moonraker, thanks to state-of-the-art instruments representing a significant improvement over Cassini's payload, would quantify the abundance of key species in the plume, isotopic ratios, and the physical parameters of the plume and the surface. Such a mission would pave the way for a possible future landed mission.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GJ20-13616Y" target="_blank" >GJ20-13616Y: Detection of dust impacts on spacecraft by electric field instruments</a><br>

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    The Planetary Science Journal

  • ISSN

    2632-3338

  • e-ISSN

    2632-3338

  • Volume of the periodical

    3

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    12

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    12

  • Pages from-to

    268

  • UT code for WoS article

    000922128400001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database