The spacecraft is now in full flight configuration after six weeks in space.
The $1.1 billion JUICE mission aims to confirm the presence of liquid water oceans below the surface of these satellites and look for the conditions and ingredients needed for life.
In the following weeks, the flight team will finish turning on and testing the spacecraft's science payloads to check all is well for the deep-space cruise to Jupiter. In August 2024, Juice will carry out the first ever lunar-Earth gravity assist. The maneuver involves a gravity assist flyby of
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