Spacecraft dynamics is just 🤯
To get to Jupiter in 2031, #ESA's #Juice will have to fly by Earth three times: this August, in August 2025 and again in August 2029. Only this complicated route enables Juice to get to Jupiter - and get into the orbit instead of just passing by (the way the amazing Voyager spacecrafts did)!
Here some infos on what to look out for this August, during the first ever Lunar-Earth flyby:
Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: all you need to know
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will return to Earth on 19–20 August, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft first past the Moon and then past Earth itself. This ‘braking’ manoeuvre will take Juice on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus.www.esa.int
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