Juice Spacecraft Successfully Completesโฃ Venus Flyby, On Track for Jupiter โขArrival
Paris – August 31, 2025 – โThe โคEuropean Space Agency’s (ESA) Juice mission has successfully completed a crucial gravityโ assist maneuverโ at Venus, keeping the spacecraft onโฃ schedule for its enterprisingโ journey to explore Jupiter and โฃits icy moons.โค The flyby, which โoccurred earlier today, utilized โคVenus’s gravitational โคpull โขto accelerate โขJuice and refine its trajectory towards โthe โฃJovian โฃsystem.โค
This maneuver is a key componentโค of juice’s complex voyage, requiring four gravity assists – three from earth and one โคfrom Venus – to gain โขthe necessary velocity to reachโ the outerโ solar system. The spacecraft frist passed Earth โin August โฃ2024.โข Followingโ today’s Venus encounter, Juiceโค will make two further Earth flybys before embarking โขon โขits final course for Jupiter in January 2029,โฃ with an anticipatedโ arrival in 2031.
The Juice (Jupiterโ Icy Moons Explorer) mission, launched in April 2023 aboard โคan Ariane 5 rocket, is designed โto investigateโ the potential for โhabitable environments beneath the icy โคsurfaces of Jupiter’s moons Europa, Ganymede, and callisto. the mission will focusโ particularlyโ on Ganymede, theโฃ largest moon in the solar system, where Juice is โฃplanned to enter orbitโ inโ 2035 before ultimately deorbiting and impacting the moon’s surface.โค The spacecraft carries a suiteโ of sophisticated instruments โขto study the moons’ โคsubsurface โฃoceans,โฃ icy โshells,โค and potential for life.
