Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission: Rocket Rollout | European Space Agency
The rollout of the Ariane 5 rocket VA 260 with the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft started on Tuesday April 11, 2023. JUICE is being prepared to launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on April 13, 2023.
JUICE—JUpiter ICy moons Explorer—is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will characterize Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. JUICE will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Following launch, JUICE will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth.
Flight VA260 will be the final European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 5 flight to carry a ESA mission to space.
Follow the JUICE Mission: www.esa.int/juice
Credits: ESA- S. Corvaja
Release Date: April 11, 2023
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