Enlarge / An Ariane 5 rocket is seen on the launch pad with the JUICE spacecraft on Wednesday, April 12. (credit score: ESA)
As quickly as Thursday morning, the European House Company will launch a big probe to Jupiter to review a few of the large planet’s most intriguing moons.
With a mass of 6 metric tons, the Jupiter Ice Moons Explorer—or JUICE—is the biggest deep house mission launched by the European House Company and one of many largest by any nation to the outer planets. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket at 8:15 am ET (12:15 UTC) from Kourou, French Guiana. It is going to be broadcast stay on ESA Net TV.
The European House Company carried out high-profile science missions earlier than, together with the audacious touchdown of the Rosetta spacecraft on a comet in 2014 that garnered worldwide consideration. Europe additionally constructed the Huygens lander that flew aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to Saturn after which landed on the moon Titan.
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