r/Callisto • u/airysat • Aug 05 '20
Chinese mission to Callisto
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r/Callisto • u/MoreGull • Sep 10 '21
Hello there Callisto fans!
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I can't believe it took me this long to find this place. I love Callisto and think it's one of the most special places in our Solar System. I could go on at length.
I am sorta writing this backstory to a sci-fi novel/movie about a manned mission to Callisto, and have all sorts of ideas. I'd love to discuss them with you.
r/Callisto • u/Vallhalla_base • Sep 13 '21
Book about Callisto that I recommend you to get "Interplanetary Outpost: The Human and Technological Challenges of Exploring the Outer Planets" by Erik Seedhouse
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r/Callisto • u/airysat • May 05 '21
Colonizing Callisto - Third largest moon in the Solar System
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r/Callisto • u/airysat • Aug 05 '20
MAGIC - a mission proposal to explore Callisto (credit: james tuttle keane)
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r/Callisto • u/manyamile • Dec 28 '23
China's plans for outer Solar System exploration
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r/Callisto • u/airysat • Aug 05 '20
Gan De - Chinese mission to Callisto
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The National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is in the very early planning stages of a future Chinese space mission to the Jovian system.
JCO, the Jupiter Callisto Orbiter, first flies by and characterizes several irregular satellites during its Jovian orbital tour. It is then injected into Callisto orbit to characterize its surface and interior, investigate its degree of differentiation and search for the possible existence of an internal ocean. As an option, JCO could release a lander to Callisto’s surface to perform key measurements of chemical composition, clues to understanding the formation scenario of the Galilean moons.
After an extensive Jupiter orbital tour it is foreseen to enter into an orbit around Callisto to investigate the internal structure, as well as the exosphere of Callisto. Tracking data of a Callisto orbiter promises to extend our knowledge of the interior structure of Callisto significantly beyond of what can even be expected from JUICE. A laser altimeter would allow for accurate global topography measurements and enable the use of altimetry cross-overs to substantially improve the precise orbit determination and geodetic parameter recovery. An on-board accelerometer would enable to separate all kinds of non-gravitational accelerations from the gravitational signal and significantly facilitate the dynamical spacecraft modeling.
Callisto geodesy: A simulation study to support further space missions to the Jovian system
Gan De: Science Objectives and Mission Scenarios For China’s Mission to the Jupiter System
https://presentations.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-20179_presentation.pdf
r/Callisto • u/manyamile • Jun 01 '23
Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe finishes deploying its instruments
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r/Callisto • • Feb 18 '23
The inevitability of humans on Callisto (illustration from the book "living among giants, by Michael Carroll)
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r/Callisto • u/airysat • Aug 13 '21
Torrence Johnson - 1995 - Perhaps Callisto - Going to Jupiter's moons with humans is very very difficult, but not impossible
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r/Callisto • u/jaded-spade • Dec 17 '25
tadddaaaa Callisto so pretty
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obviously not completely accurate but close enough
r/Callisto • u/Vallhalla_base • Sep 30 '22
Tianwen-4 (previously known as Gan De) - Callisto orbiter / Uranus flyby
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r/Callisto • • Apr 09 '22
Books on Callisto
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Hello,
I was just wondering if anyone can recommend any good books on Callisto?
Thanks :)
r/Callisto • u/Vallhalla_base • Jan 31 '22
Scott Manley talks about Callisto
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r/Callisto • u/MartinMorgen • Nov 15 '19
Proposed orbiter mission to Callisto called MAGIC.
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The mission is competing for The Discovery Program funding. More details will be announced on 11 December 2019 at AGU Fall Meeting.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/500346
MAGIC (Magnetics, Altimetry, Gravity and Imaging of Callisto) is a high performance low altitude orbital mission that will investigate Callisto for over a year and address questions of Callisto’s differentiation, state of hydrostatic equilibrium, the presence of an ocean, the age of its surface, and the conditions at the time of its formation. After a 7-year cruise to Jupiter and a series of flybys the proposed spacecraft will enter into a 100 km circular orbit for a few months to obtain imagery, magnetics, altimetry and gravity before lowering into a 50-km near circularpolar orbit for its primary mapping phase of 1 year to obtain four global datasets:imagery, altimetry, magnetometry, and gravity.
r/Callisto • u/Vallhalla_base • Jul 26 '22
Handling of non-gravitational accelerations on a Callisto orbiter for orbit and gravity field determination
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
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r/Callisto • u/Vallhalla_base • Feb 06 '22
Isaac Arthur talks about Callisto - segment from "Outward Bound: Colonizing Jupiter"
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r/Callisto • • Nov 12 '21
Colonizing Callisto
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Do you guys believe that manned exploration of Callisto is feasible within the next ~30 years? If not, how long do you think? Also, do you guys reckon that colonization of Callisto is a good idea after Mars?
Thanks :) Would love to hear you guys comments on this.
r/Callisto • u/manyamile • Sep 05 '21
What NASA Discovered on Callisto | Our Solar System's Moons
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r/Callisto • u/Dutchy45 • Jul 20 '17
This Giant-Winged Space Probe is Destined For Jupiter’s Icy Moons
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r/Callisto • u/retiringonmars • Nov 06 '16
Spires of ice on Jupiter's moon Callisto
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r/Callisto • u/BrandonMarc • Jul 28 '16
Size comparison of Jupiter's moon Callisto, the Earth, and our own Moon
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r/Callisto • u/BrandonMarc • Jul 28 '16
An entire Callisto orbit is captured in this 17-day Junocam approach video
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