"Jupiter Five" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine If in 1953.

[1] It appeared again in Clarke's collection of short stories Reach for Tomorrow, in 1956,[1] and deals with the detection and exploration of an old spaceship from outside the Solar System.

Forster takes advantage of a loophole in space law and claims salvage rights to Jupiter V in the name of the World Science Organization.

[2] "Jupiter Five" belongs among Clarke's "few attempts at melodrama", together with his short stories "Breaking Strain" (1949) and "Guardian Angel" (1950), according to David N.

[3] The idea of an artifact left behind by a spacefaring alien race for humans to discover after they achieved space flight also showed up in "The Sentinel", a 1948 (published 1951) Clarke short story about the discovery of an ancient artifact on the Moon and the major basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 novel and film Clarke developed in partnership with director Stanley Kubrick.