ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on an epic eight-year journey to Jupiter. It left Earth in April 2023 and is because of arrive on the gasoline large in 2031.
2025 has been one other large 12 months for Juice. It made its closest strategy to the Solar and flew shut by Venus for a gravity increase to assist it on its manner. This second episode of ‘The journey of Juice’ takes us on a journey of our personal, discovering what Juice – and the people behind it – have skilled this 12 months.
In a clear room at ESA’s technical centre, thermal engineer Romain Peyrou-Lauge exhibits us the applied sciences that defend Juice from the extreme warmth of the Solar throughout this era.
In Uppsala, Sweden, scientists get collectively for a ‘science working group’ assembly to debate the scientific points of the mission. Juice Undertaking Scientist Olivier Witasse talks about how vital it’s to proceed working as a group to put together for Juice’s treasured time spent accumulating knowledge at Jupiter.
The video culminates with operations engineer Marc Costa taking us to the Cebreros station in Madrid for the Venus flyby. There we meet deputy station supervisor Jorge Fauste, Juice intern Charlotte Bergot and Juice Mission Supervisor Nicolas Altobelli.
This sequence follows on from ‘The making of Juice’ sequence, which lined the planning, testing and launch of this once-in-a-generation mission.
