ESA JUICE

ESA’s Juice spacecraft performed a critical maneuver to align for an Earth-Moon gravity assist in 2024, part of its eight-year mission to Jupiter. The maneuver is a key step in a fuel-efficient trajectory that includes further planetary flybys, aiming to study Jupiter’s moons upon arrival in 2031. This illustration depicts ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) approaching Earth. Credit: ESA/Lightcurve Films/R. AndresOn November 17, 2023, ESA’s Juice spacecraft carried out one of the largest and most important maneuvers…

A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans.The journey began with a perfect morning liftoff by Europe's Ariane rocket from French Guiana on the coast of South America. But there were some tense minutes later as controllers awaited signals from the spacecraft. When contact finally was confirmed close to an hour into the flight, Mission Control in Germany declared: “The spacecraft is alive!” It will take the robotic explorer,…

ESA's JUICE mission set to launch probe for Jupiter's icy moons on Thursday.(Photo:ESA)The European Space Agency's (ESA) first-ever mission to find alien life on the icy worlds of Jupiter successfully took off on Friday.The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer or JUICE mission launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Friday at 8:14 a.m. EDT (5:44 p.m. IST), after a one-day delay caused by the threat of lightning at the launch site."Liftoff for humankind's next bold mission to the outer…

In just a few hours from now, the first-ever Jupiter mission for Europe will take off. The mission, which is called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), is being led by the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft will study three of Jupiter's Galilean moons — Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa — in search of water and signs of life on them. The spacecraft will take about seven and a half years to reach the gas giant and will begin its exploration in 2031. If you want to know the time of the JUICE mission launch and…

Jupiter's large icy moons hold numerous secrets which are still unexplored. ESA's JUICE spacecraft, short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, is set to embark on a mission to visit the largest planet in our solar system. JUICE's journey to Jupiter will take a total of eight years, during which it will utilize gravitational assistance from Earth, Venus, and Mars to conserve fuel. While reaching Jupiter in July 2031, the spacecraft powered by the sun will use its 10 science instruments to investigate three of the four largest…