The European Space Agency is about to send a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons
. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, was expected to lift off Thursday at 8:15 a.m. ET aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. But a lightning risk postponed the launch, which has been rescheduled for Friday at 8:14 a.m. ET. Watch the launch live on ESA’s website or YouTube channel. Weather can often cause launch delays and postponements. Specific weather criteria must be met in order for rockets to safely lift off.
The search for life in our solar system Once Juice arrives at Jupiter in July 2031, the spacecraft will spend about three and a half years orbiting the gas giant and conducting flybys of three of its moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Toward the end of the mission, Juice will focus solely on orbiting Ganymede, making it the first spacecraft to ever orbit a moon in the outer solar system.
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