Juice enters orbit around Jupiter
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant planets now known to orbit other stars.
Juice will start its science mission about six months prior to entering orbit around Jupiter in 2031, making observations as it approaches its destination. It makes a first flyby of Ganymede a few hours before Jupiter orbit insertion. Once in the Jovian system and in orbit around Jupiter, a series of further gravity-assist flybys Ganymede will help Juice reduce its orbital energy as needed.
Watch the full sequence of Juice’s journey to, and tour of, Jupiter and its icy moons.
