2010 Odyssey Two Mission Objectives

"The objectives of your mission are, in order of priority:

1. To proceed to the Jovian system and rendezvous with US Spacecraft Discovery (UNCOS01/283)
2. To board this spacecraft to obtain all possible information relating to its earlier mission
3. To reactivate Spacecraft Discovery’s onboard system and if propellant supplies are adequate, inject the ship into Earth return trajectory
4. To locate the alien artifact encountered by Discovery, and to investigate to the maximum extent possible by remote sensors
5. If it seems advisable, and Mission Control concurs, to rendezvous with this object for closer inspection
6. To carry our a survey of Jupiter and its satellites, as far as this is compatible with the above objectives"

2010 Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke