Tomorrow sees the launch of the JUICE spacecraft, which will travel to the Jupiter system to investigate whether the moons there could be potentially habitable.
Tomorrow will see the launch of the JUICE spacecraft, which will travel to the Jupiter system to investigate several of the moons there. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, from the European Space Agency , will investigate three of Jupiter’s biggest moons, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and will discover whether these distant, icy worlds could be habitable.
The launch of the spacecraft is scheduled for Thursday, April 13, using an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana . To prepare for the launch the spacecraft was fully integrated last year, and was then packed up and shipped from its testing location in Toulouse, France to French Guiana.
Related Videos That deployment includes folding out the spacecraft’s large solar panels, which need to be big to capture the faint rays of the sun for power as it travels far out into the solar system toward Jupiter, and a variety of antennae and booms that will hold instruments. These booms are needed to hold the instruments away from the spacecraft’s body so that they can take sensitive readings of factors like magnetic fields without interference from the spacecraft’s systems.
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