A general overview of our designed mission. One spacecraft orbiting Europa and one Jupiter 
A concept 3D model of the Europa Orbiter 
The Relay Satellite
My job: choosing and simulating the orbit of the Europa Orbit in great detail 
A ground plot of the Europa Orbiter, for a period of a few hours
Plots of altitude versus time of the Europa Orbiter, for different inclinations (90 is a polar orbit)
The predicted time to impact (crash) of the Europa Orbiter for different initial altitudes. The prediction of my model is the orange line, ESA's simulation is the blue line. 
3 comments:
Nice graphs. Looks complicated.
There is something wrong with the images though, or it may be my Firefox. But when I click on them it prompts a download screen instead of opening them. Weird.
think its because the pics are png and can only be opened with photoshop. Dont know shit about it do :).
Nice pics looks like something i will never understand
Wow, I felt really important reading the executive summary!
This looks like a decent paper! (it's suprisingly easy to read & understand what you're doing for a spacenoob like me)
But I wonder, what is the lifespan of the Relay satelite? Could it be possible to use it on a second mission to Europa? Would that be feasible?
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