{"id":21988,"date":"2023-04-27T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/the-latest-mission-to-help-find-extraterrestrial-life-launches\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:37:36","slug":"the-latest-mission-to-help-find-extraterrestrial-life-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/the-latest-mission-to-help-find-extraterrestrial-life-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest mission to help find extraterrestrial life launches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update: ESA announces snagged deployment of JUICE radar instrument.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mission summary<\/h2>\n

The JUICE spacecraft, which comes in at about 11,464 pounds (5,200 kilograms) and is larger than a school bus, was launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on April 14, 2023. Over the next eight years, JUICE will travel more than 600 million miles through our solar system, performing a series of gravity-assist maneuvers to reach Jupiter and its moons. The spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter in July 2031 and will conduct a three-and-a-half-year tour of the giant planet and its moons, according to the mission\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft is equipped with a heap of cutting-edge scientific instruments with acronyms plucked out of alphabet soup; including visible and infrared imaging, RIME radar sounder, GALA laser altimeter, SWI submillimeter wave instrument, J-MAG magnetometer, and many others. These will allow scientists to conduct detailed observations and measurements of Jupiter\u2019s largest moons \u2013 Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.<\/p>\n

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