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ESA is deciding this week which billion-plus euro project will receive funding for launch in the early 2020s. The three candidates are:
Juice - A probe that will be sent to investigate Jupiter and its moons, would be the first probe to Ganymede and would hopefulyl characterise underground liquid oceans (amongst other things).
Athena - The "high energy complement to JWST" Athena would be the largest x-ray telescope ever built and would be used to investigate black holes and galactic nuclei.
NGO - Formerly LISA; a joint project between NASA and ESA (until funding cuts forced NASA to reconsider) the Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO) would consist of a trio of laser-linked probes to investigate gravitational waves.
So the question is: which would you fund?
Juice - A probe that will be sent to investigate Jupiter and its moons, would be the first probe to Ganymede and would hopefulyl characterise underground liquid oceans (amongst other things).
Athena - The "high energy complement to JWST" Athena would be the largest x-ray telescope ever built and would be used to investigate black holes and galactic nuclei.
NGO - Formerly LISA; a joint project between NASA and ESA (until funding cuts forced NASA to reconsider) the Gravitational-Wave Observatory (NGO) would consist of a trio of laser-linked probes to investigate gravitational waves.
So the question is: which would you fund?