After an eight-year journey, JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) will make detailed observations of the gas giant planet and its three major oceanic moons (Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa).
The European Space Agency (ESA) is already refining the final details for the launch of Europe’s ambitious JUICE mission to the Jupiter system, scheduled for today, if predictions are met, on an Ariane 5 rocket. The aim is to the planet Jupiter and three of its satellites.
The van-sized spacecraft was finally mounted in the rocket between April 1 and 3, awaiting launch from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.
After an eight-year journey, JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), will make detailed observations of the gas giant planet and its three major oceanic moons (Ganymede, Callisto and Europa) with a range of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments.
The mission will characterize these moons as planetary objects and potential habitats, further explore Jupiter’s complex environment, and study the larger Jupiter system as an archetype of gas giants across the universe.
JUICE will form a shovel in the solar system for several reasons. It will be the first time a probe has orbited a moon that is not ours., Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest satellite. On the way to this planet, we will see a gravity assist maneuver of the earth and moon for the first time to save fuel, reports ESA.
Sener joins the probe mast
The aerospace division of the Basque engineering firm Sener contributed to the mission with the design, manufacture and verification of a 10.6 meter long mast for the juice probe.
Sener won the ESA contract to develop, manufacture and supply the deployable mast (tree) of a magnetometer, the purpose of which is to keep some of the instruments needed for scientific experiments away from the ship’s magnetic interference, Engineering recalled in a statement.
Antenna elements, manufactured in Gipuzkoa
In turn, the Gipuzkoan high-precision machining cooperative Goimek has collaborated with Sener Aeroespacial in the manufacture of a spacecraft antenna component.
The group reports this in a statementdanobat group to which Goimek belongs, the antenna works both to establish two-way communication between the spacecraft and Earth and to ensure the operation of the radio frequency experiment carried by the probe.
Source: EITB
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