# JUICE

*Spacecraft*

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.

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| --- | --- |
| Agency | ESA |
| Launched | 2023-04-14 - still working |
| From the Sun | 171,480,963 km (-912,254 km/d) |
| From the Earth | 22,206,165 km (-1,051,277 km/d) |
| A signal takes | 74 s |
| Travelling at | 27.8 km/s |

Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of 2026-09-05, changing at the rate given beside each. The interpolation itself is good to a few kilometres; what ages these figures is the date, not the arithmetic.

## 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

- 2024-08-19 — Past the Moon, the first half of a pair never flown before
- 2024-08-20 — Past the Earth the next day, the other half of it
- 2025-08-31 — Venus flyby

## Elsewhere

- On the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?world=solar-system&focus=juice
- The mission's own page: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice
- This object as a page: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/juice/
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt