Europa Report

Europa Report is a movie about a human mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter, to explore the moon for signs of life. Europa has an oxygen atmosphere and a surface composed of water ice that has led to the hypothesis that there is an ocean under the ice.

Europa Report does a great job of being scientifically accurate. The spacecraft shown in the movie addresses the major issues that travelers would experience on a voyage to Jupiter. The crew section of the spacecraft is spun for artificial gravity and accommodations are made to deal with the high radiation environment around Jupiter.

Our Spacecraft Control Toolbox can be used to design the spacecraft and simulate every phase from Earth Orbit to Europa landing. We have a script for a powered Europa landing. Here are the results!

EuropaLanding

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About Michael Paluszek

Michael Paluszek is President of Princeton Satellite Systems. He graduated from MIT with a degree in electrical engineering in 1976 and followed that with an Engineer's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1979. He worked at MIT for a year as a research engineer then worked at Draper Laboratory for 6 years on GN&C for human space missions. He worked at GE Astro Space from 1986 to 1992 on a variety of satellite projects including GPS IIR, Inmarsat 3 and Mars Observer. In 1992 he founded Princeton Satellite Systems.

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