ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will launch in April 2023 from Europes Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket. Credit: ESA, Acknowledgment: ATG Medialab
ESAs 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 Europes Spaceport in French Guiana. Heres how to follow the essential milestones online.
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Enjoy live from 7:45 a.m. on April 13.
Tune into ESA Web TV directly or via YouTube continuous stream to follow the launch live:.
7:45– 10:05 a.m. Launch program10:30– 11:15 a.m. Post-launch press instruction.
ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will release in April 2023 from Europes Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 launcher. Juice will separate from the Ariane 5 28 minutes after launch, then 5 minutes later on, ESA will begin tracking Juice using ground stations. In between 99 minutes and 17 days post-launch, Juices solar varieties, antennas, probes, and magnetometer boom will be released, after which Juice is all set to continue its eight-year journey to Jupiter. Credit: ESA (Acknowledgment: work carried out by ATG under contract to ESA), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Key milestones.
On launch day the following crucial turning points will be consisted of in the launch program and covered by ESA social networks channels.
8:15 a.m. Juice launch on Ariane 58:42 a.m. Separation of Juice from Ariane 5 upper stage8:51 a.m. Earliest anticipated time to obtain Juices signal9:55 a.m. Solar variety deployment anticipated to be finished.
Times are specific to introduce occurring on April 13 and may vary by a couple of minutes.
Juice launched into area (artists impression). Simply 28 minutes after liftoff, the Ariane 5 will release Juice into area.
First images.
Juice is equipped with two keeping an eye on cams that will catch parts of the solar variety release following launch, and a few days later the deployment of the 16 m-long radar antenna. They will be made available for publication at the earliest possibility if suitable images are obtained.
Scientists and engineers put their heads together to equip Juice with a distinct set of solar panels, antennas, probes and booms that will help the spacecraft gotten rid of challenges that no other European mission has actually dealt with before. To keep the state-of-the-art devices safe during the launch, whatever will be stashed, ready to be deployed only as soon as Juice has actually separated from its Ariane 5 host rocket in space. Credit: ESA/ ATG medialab.
Beyond launch day.
Over the 2 and a half weeks following launch, Juice will release its various antennas and instrument booms, which will be reported on Twitter by @ESA_JUICE and @esaoperations in the first circumstances. An extreme three-month commissioning of Juices scientific instruments will also follow.
The first of 4 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 on by among Earth.
Humankinds next bold mission to the outer Solar System, ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to check out the giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. Credit: Produced by ESA/ATG medialab.
About Juice.
ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is mankinds next vibrant objective to the external Solar System. Juice will keep an eye on Jupiters intricate magnetic, radiation, and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems throughout the Universe.
Juice launches on an Ariane 5 from Europes Spaceport in Kourou in April 2023. It has an eight-year cruise with flybys of Earth and Venus to slingshot it to Jupiter. It will make 35 flybys of the three big moons while orbiting Jupiter, before altering orbits to Ganymede.
Juice is a mission under ESA management with contributions from NASA, JAXA, and the Israel Space Agency. It is the very first Large-class objective in ESAs Cosmic Vision program.
ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will release in April 2023 from Europes 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 on, ESA will start tracking Juice using ground stations. In between 99 minutes and 17 days post-launch, Juices solar ranges, antennas, probes, and magnetometer boom will be released, after which Juice is all set to continue its eight-year journey to Jupiter. Mankinds next vibrant objective to the external Solar System, ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to check out the huge planet Jupiter and its biggest moons. ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is humankinds next bold objective to the outer Solar System.
