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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will launch in April 2023 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Simply 28 minutes after liftoff, the Ariane 5 will launch Juice into house. However the spacecraft is not going to be left to fend for itself – 5 minutes later ESA mission controllers will begin receiving indicators through floor stations and assume management of the spacecraft.
Ariane 5 has been the workhorse of Europe’s impartial entry to house since its first launch in 1996. Since then, over 100 of those rockets have lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport, carrying treasured cargo together with six ESA house science missions. Juice would be the final ESA mission to launch on an Ariane 5 earlier than Ariane 6 takes over later in 2023.
Did you see the particular piece of art work on the nostril (fairing) of this Ariane 5? This drawing was the profitable entry to the ‘JUICE Up Your Rocket!’ competition, which invited kids from everywhere in the world to create a murals associated to Juice.
More information on Juice’s launch and deployment timeline.
More information on Ariane 5’s legacy of launching science missions.
More information about Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is humanity’s subsequent daring mission to the outer Photo voltaic System. It is going to make detailed observations of gasoline big Jupiter and its three giant ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. This bold mission will characterise these moons with a strong suite of distant sensing, geophysical and in situ devices to find extra about these compelling locations as potential habitats for previous or current life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complicated magnetic, radiation and plasma setting in depth and its interaction with the moons, finding out the Jupiter system as an archetype for gasoline big programs throughout the Universe.
Juice launches on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou in April 2023. It has an eight 12 months cruise with flybys of Earth and Venus to slingshot it to Jupiter. It is going to make 35 flybys of the three giant moons whereas orbiting Jupiter, earlier than altering orbits to Ganymede.
Juice is a mission underneath ESA management with contributions from NASA, JAXA and the Israeli House Company. It’s the first Massive-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Imaginative and prescient programme.
