Without access to Russian rockets, the European Space Agency is in a race to source alternative launchers.
Juice is an interplanetary spacecraft. It is the first of its kind to explore the outer Solar System planets without being launched by the United States. ESA developed and built it and launched it from the Guiana Space Centre in South America’s French Guiana. Airbus Defence and Space was the primary contractor for Juice.
“ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. The mission will characterise these moons as both planetary objects and possible habitats, explore Jupiter’s complex environment in depth, and study the wider Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants across the Universe.” – ESA
Photo: Airbus
Juice is currently on its way to orbit and studying Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (three icy moons of Jupiter). These moons are thought to have bodies of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces and are believed to be potentially habitable for extraterrestrial life.
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