ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 14:14 CEST on 14 April. The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious voyage to uncover the secrets of the ocean worlds around giant planet Jupiter.

The first of four gravity assist flybys in the inner Solar System will take place in August 2024 with a lunar-Earth gravity-assist – a flyby of the Moon followed 1.5 days later by one of Earth. Juice is planned to arrive at Jupiter in July 2031.

  • @0x815OP
    2•1 year ago

    Thanks, I haven’t had time anyway :-) I changed the date for everyone to see immediately.