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NASA proposes Europa mission by 2025

On Tuesday, NASA released an overview of its $17 billion budget request for fiscal year 2015, which includes funds "for the formulation for a mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa

NASA has been developing concepts for exploring Europa that include the launch of "clipper" that would flyby and gather data from above the moon, as well as a possible lander. The cost of the clipper mission was estimated (PDF) in 2012 at just under $2 billion, while the cost of a landing on Europa was pegged at $2.8 billion.

Europa Clipper NASA mission site is here

NASA officials suggest that the Europa mission space is wide open at this point, the best candidate to get off the ground in 2025 or so may be a concept called the Europa Clipper.

NASA researchers have been developing the Europa Clipper idea for years. The probe would orbit Jupiter but make dozens of flybys of Europa, using a variety of science instruments to study the moon's ice shell and subsurface ocean.

On its surface, Europa appears to be an iced-over rock orbiting the biggest planet in our neighborhood and often getting nuked by Jupiter's radiation belt. However, it's believed that a subsurface ocean exists beneath the ice, kept liquid by a phenomenon called tidal flexing. Just last month, Hubble spotted evidence of a plume of water vapor at the moon's south pole.

Europa's Oceans are ten times deeper than the Earth's oceans and there is more water on Europa.

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Bad relations between Russia and the US and Europe are now guaranteed for many years and this will help Elon Musk

Regardless of the final outcome of the situation in the Ukraine with Russia. US and European relations with Russia will be bad for many years.

Europe will try to have less dependence upon Russian Natural Gas. Europe now gets about 30% from Russia.
Europe and American Banks and investors will try to have less exposure to Russian assets.

The politics are just part of it. Russia is now an unreliable and more risky situation for business.
The US has dependence on Russia for spaceflight.

At the very least, Spacex will get elevated to being an equal competitor for Air Force launches. It is likely that Russian made engines will be phased out for American launches. I believe that Spacex will get more breaks in certification and will get accelerated through manned certification and military launch certification.

Before Ukraine, the West could believe that engaging Russia as partner would be good for relations and good for business.

The U.S. Air Force is looking for new ways to get its spy and GPS satellites into space for less money through their EELV (Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle) program. Currently United Launch Alliance (ULA), the joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, launches these satellites. But the rocket establishment is facing some competition in the form of Elon Musk and SpaceX.

ULA's Atlas V and Delta IV rockets use Russian-made rocket engines.

Elon Musk made his case for Spacex to the US Senate Sub-committee

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