NASA and ESA prioritise outer planet missions


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.

Concept of mission to Saturnian moons
 
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.



Release date: 18 February 2009