EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION DESIGN
Seminar
Thursday, June 26, at 14:30 - Sala Consiglio DAER, Building B12, 2nd Floor, Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via la Masa 34, Milano
Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, has been a prime target for space exploration.
NASA’s flagship mission Europa Clipper, designed to assess the moon’s potential habitability, was launched in October 2024 and is currently en route to Jupiter.
Upon arrival in 2030, it will perform a complex gravity assist trajectory (tour) with more than 50 flybys to Jovian moons until 2034.
This lecture unveils the decade-long design process of this 10-year interplanetary trajectory.
Speaker:
Stefano Campagnola is mission designer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and orbital mechanics instructor at Caltech. He has worked at ESA/ESOC and JAXA/ISAS for a decade prior to moving to JPL in 2016. He was mission design manager for Europa Clipper and contributed to the trajectory design of BepiColombo, JUICE (ESA); MMX, Destiny, EQUULEUS (JAXA); Europa Clipper, Lunar Trailblazer, Lunar Flashlight (NASA); among other missions. His research interests include space mission design, optimal control, astrodynamics, and non-linear dynamical systems.
24.06.2025