Dordain noted that the ESA shared Russia's aptness in a linkage profession to Jupiter and its moon Ganymede.
Nearer it was reported that Russia was mulling collusion in the ESA profession Weaken, which stands for "JUpiter ICy moon Colonist."
The profession is slated to investigate Jupiter and three of its major moons - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa - and is as it should be to extend the solar system's major planet in circles 2030.
Pronto under envisage, the profession would be Europe's first to the external solar system aloof from the Huygens examine, which piggybacked on the American Cassini spacecraft to extend Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.
On Friday Rene Pishel, the head connection of the ESA in Russia, told depress that four Russian Soyuz-ST rockets would be launched this blind date from the ESA's Kourou space center in French Guiana, amid the boon of the ESA's Sentinel-1 satellite to monitor tiny aerobics in Earth's continents and load.