Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency.
In context
- When
- Friday, April 14 20233 years ago
- Category
- Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
- Era
- 21st century · 2020s
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At a glance
Dates: From 2023.
Type: planetary probe and orbiter.
What came before
Background Industry partners and the lead scientific institutes or universities that have contributed to Juice ESA and NASA missions that have visited or will visit Jupiter The mission started as a reformulation of the Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter proposal, which was to be ESA 's component of the cancelled Europa Jupiter System Mission – Laplace (EJSM-Laplace). [ 1 ] It became a candidate for the first L-class (Large) mission (L1) of the ESA Cosmic Vision Programme,
What happened
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is an interplanetary spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). It is on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. These planetary-mass moons are targets for study because they are thought to have significant bodies of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces, which would make them potentially habitable for extraterrestrial life.
April 14 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
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- 2015Western Kentucky University
- 20162016 Kumamoto earthquakes
- 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
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When did Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer happen?
April 14 2023 — 3 years ago, on a Friday.
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