Credit: ESA (acknowledgment: ATG Medialab) Despite minor issues, all systems are expected to be fully functional by mid-July. All onboard equipment, including groundbreaking instruments like the RPWI for 3D mapping of electric fields and the JANUS optical camera for studying icy moons, have been deployed and confirmed operational. Six weeks after launch, it is now fully prepared for its mission to Jupiter. Illustration of the JUICE spacecraft in space. “We have faced and overcome various challenges to get Juice into the right shape for getting the best science out of its trip to Jupiter.” “It’s been an exhausting but very exciting six weeks,” says Angela Dietz, deputy spacecraft operations manager for the mission. The last step has been the swinging out and locking into place of the probes and antennas that make up Juice’s Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI). It has been six weeks since Juice began its journey, and in that time the Flight Control Team has deployed all the solar panels, antennas, probes, and booms that were tucked away safely during launch. Credit: ESAįlight controllers at ESA’s mission control center in Germany were busy last week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) for exploring Jupiter. The mission will characterize these moons as both planetary objects and possible habitats, explore Jupiter’s complex environment in-depth, and study the wider Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants across the Universe. _WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_BlogArchiveView', new _WidgetInfo('BlogArchive1', 'upload-image', document.ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical, and in situ instruments. Waves Complete Bundel v13 04.04.22 WiN - V.R Patch | VstDrive /*
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