Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO) was a part of the international

Europa Jupiter System Mission Europa may refer to: Places * Europe * Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace * Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro * Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development * Europa Clif ...

(EJSM). It was a proposed

orbiter A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to spaceflight, fly in outer space. A type of artificial satellite, spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including Telecommunications, communications, Earth observation satellite, Earth ...

by the ESA slated for lift-off in 2020.Anil K. Maini, Varsha Agrawal - Satellite Technology: Principles and Applications (2010) - Page 584
(Google Books Link) Plans for the mission include detailed studies of

Jupiter's moons There are 82 known moons of Jupiter, not counting a number of moonlets likely shed from the inner moons. All together, they form a satellite system which is called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: ...

Ganymede and Callisto as well as the Jovian

magnetosphere In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. It is created by a celestial body with an active interior d ...

. It was superseded by

Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft in development by the European Space Agency (ESA) with Airbus Defence and Space as the main contractor. The mission will study three of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Ganymede, ...

.ESA - Selection of the L1 mission - April 17, 2012
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External links

EJSM @ NASA
Proposed NASA space probes Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace Ganymede (moon) {{space-stub

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