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NASA and ESA prioritise outer planet missions

18 February 2009

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The ESA/NASA mission to the Jupiter system

In February 2009, ESA and NASA selected their future flagship mission to the outer Solar System - a new project to explore Jupiter and its four largest moons.

Credits: NASA/ESA

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Artist's impression of a possible future ESA/NASA mission to Saturn's system. The mission, called Tandem in Europe, is a set of spacecraft to orbit Titan, explore its surface, after exploring the surface of another moon of Saturn, Enceladus.

Credits: NASA/ESA

Looking at Saturn and Titan