"JF Mezei" wrote in message ...

On 2019-08-21 12:38, wrote:
"NASA has confirmed a mission to Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter,


The actual NASA press releas at:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/europa-...moon-confirmed

says nothing about launch vehicle.

Question:

Would launching on SLS vs Falcon vs Delta IV result in significantly
different structure in the spacecraft itself to widthsnad different
launch environments (G force, vibration) or would those basically be
equivalent and they focus only on mass?

And from a budget point of view, would "Planetary Missions Programm
Office" be able to "steal" an SLS from the Artemis programm office or
would that be really diffidult now that Artemis is on a high level of PR
and they woudln.t want to announce any cutback to program with the
limited numebr of SLS launches they have?

Could Europa Clipper launch on oe of the unmanned SLS test launches
(thus not cutting into Artemis's plans) ?


Europa Clipper was manifested awhile ago for SLS-3.

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