[peter303]

A late 2020s Europa mission has been given development money. It will take about five years to launch and another five to arrive. Europa has a large interior ocean under the ice and maybhave life. It has enough energy to keep water liquid at certain depths and drive life.

A Europa mission might resemble Cassini and Juno: orbiting the main planet with frequent flybys of the moon. This requires less fuel and keeps the probe in the dangerous radio belts less of the time.

[kchoudhu]

I seem to recall hearing that the funding for this was contingent on there being a lander as well?

[gene-h]

It's also contingent on NASA using the SLS as a launch system[0].

[0] http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3025/1

[kchoudhu]

Oof.