From the Article

>The European Space Agency (Esa) project team behind Juice held a major review this week and concluded the mission was "go for launch".
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>Aerospace company Airbus has spearheaded the construction of the €1.6bn (£1.4bn; $1.7bn) JUpiter ICy moons Explorer.
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>The manufacturer has pulled in expertise and components from all across the continent.

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From the Article

>The European Space Agency (Esa) project team behind Juice held a major review this week and concluded the mission was "go for launch".
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>Aerospace company Airbus has spearheaded the construction of the €1.6bn (£1.4bn; $1.7bn) JUpiter ICy moons Explorer.
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>The manufacturer has pulled in expertise and components from all across the continent.

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Is Jupiter the limit for how far out a mission can go fueled by rocket fuel and solar panels?

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice_factsheet

> Spacecraft: Three-axis stabilised with 10 solar panels and a 2.5-metre-long High Gain Antenna, with a dry mass of approximately 2400 kg and a wet mass (including fuel) of approximately 6000 kg. Each solar panel measures about 2.5 m x 3.5 m; with five on each side of the spacecraft deployed as two distinctive cross-shaped arrays, these total an area of about 85 square metres>

Will we ever explore the oceans of europa? Is it possible to dig 30 miles into the ice and then drop a submarine to explore it's 120 mile deep ocean amidst the intense radiation.

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Nasa has the tunnelbot concept & kilopower reactors if they ever wanted to deploy Tunnelbot so it's just a matter of will

NASA's Europa concept only digs 4 inches into the ice not 30 miles deep.

We have barely explored our own ocean. Water is hard.

Do we really want that tho? What if all that ice is actually a prison for the horrid xeno terror cthulu who unleashes unspeakable horrors upon the universe?

Did you watch Europa Report the movie?

Nope how was it

The movie is basically your comment above, but the creature is much smaller.

You mean ice. Ice is hard water.

That tubbelbot will break down after a few feet. And they would need to constantly replace the head. Not including the other things. Digging through Europa is a pipe-dream for now.

Isn't one of the ideas to use the heat from the nuclear fission reactor to melt through the ice rather than some kind of mechanical ice breaker?