The launch will be the penultimate flight for Europe's Ariane 5 rocket.
After conducting a complex sequence of flybys of Earth, Earth's moon and Venus in order to gain momentum from these bodies' gravitational influence, JUICE will arrive at the Jovian system. Once there, the spacecraft will conduct an ambitious study to determine whether there are habitable environments on the moons Callisto, Ganymede or Europa, all of which are believed to have liquid-water oceans beneath thick shells of ice.
The Ariane 5 rocket that will launch the mission has had an impressive career and has earned a reputation for being reliable. Throughout its three decades of service, the Ariane 5 has launched five cargo missions to the International Space Station and in 2004 lofted what was at the time the heaviest telecommunications satellite to date. In December 2021, an Ariane 5 launched the revolutionary
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