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JUICE
Europe's mission to Jupiter's icy moons, on its way to Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, all three of which are thought to hold liquid water under their surfaces. It will end in orbit around Ganymede in 2034 - the first spacecraft ever to orbit a moon other than our own.
- Agency
- ESA
- Launched
- 2023-04-14 - still working
- From the Sun
- 137,536,826 km (-697,404 km/d)
- From the Earth
- 14,271,203 km (+986,955 km/d)
- A signal takes
- 48 s
- Travelling at
- 37.2 km/s
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Path
A cruise stitched together out of gravity assists - the Earth and Moon, then Venus, then the Earth twice more - ending in orbit round Jupiter in 2031 and round Ganymede in 2034.
Along the way
- Past the Moon, the first half of a pair never flown before
- Past the Earth the next day, the other half of it
- Venus flyby
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.