On Scientific Assessment of Options for the Disposal of the Galileo Spacecraft
COMPLEX understands that operational considerations point to collision with Jupiter as NASA’s preferred means for disposing of Galileo. COMPLEX concurs with this decision.
1Space Studies Board, National Research Council, Preventing the Forward Contamination of Europa, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000.
2The Io plus Amalthea option is not consistent with Galileo’s current budget plan.
3Space Studies Board, National Research Council, An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, page 92.
4Space Studies Board, National Research Council, Preventing the Forward Contamination of Europa, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000, Appendix.