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, members of the Juice project team at ESA discuss the shift of Juice’s launch window to accommodate difficulties encountered in the previous two years, settling on a new window of 5–25 April 2023. How was this new launch window selected, and what impact will it have on Juice’s journey to and around Jupiter?

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