ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, Juice, is planned for launch at 8:15 a.m. EDT (13:15 BST/14:15 CEST) on April 13 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Here’s how to follow the key milestones online. (All time in EDT.) Watch live from 7:45 a.m. on April 13. Tune into ESA Web TV dir
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer will launch in April 2023 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 launcher. Juice will separate from the Ariane 5 28 minutes after launch, then five minutes later, ESA will start tracking Juice using ground stations. Between 99 minutes and 17 days post-launch, Juice’s solar arrays, antennas, probes, and magnetometer boom will be deployed, after which Juice is ready to continue its eight-year journey to Jupiter.
Scientists and engineers put their heads together to equip Juice with a unique set of solar panels, antennas, probes and booms that will help the spacecraft overcome challenges that no other European mission has faced before. To keep the high-tech equipment safe during the launch, everything will be tucked away, ready to be deployed only once Juice has separated from its Ariane 5 host rocket in space.
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. A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to explore the giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. These intriguing worlds have piqued our curiosity ever since Galileo first raised his telescope to the planet and discovered its four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, three of which are thought to harbor underground oceans.
Juice launches on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou in April 2023. It has an eight-year cruise with flybys of Earth andto slingshot it to Jupiter. It will make 35 flybys of the three large moons while orbiting Jupiter, before changing orbits to Ganymede.
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