The making of Juice – episode 8

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) was developed, constructed and tested at different sites across Europe. This seventh episode in ‘The making of Juice’ series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry and planetary science community involved in the mission.

In this episode, Manuela Baroni, Juice AIT (Assembly, Integration and Testing) Engineer at ESA, and Stefan Engelke, Test and Analysis Engineer at Airbus, describe the magnetic test campaign that took place in mid-August 2022. To measure the magnetic fields of Jupiter and its icy moons, Juice must be very clean from a magnetic point of view, meaning that the magnetic interference from the instruments and electronics on the spacecraft must be as small as possible. This test was the first of its kind ever performed on a complete spacecraft.

November 2023 update: This episode is part of a film project that culminated in a two-hour documentary film released in November 2023.

Access the other episodes of ‘The making of Juice’

Credit: ESA/Lightcurve Films, original music by William Zeitler