The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, better known as Juice, is an eight-year quest seeking alien life on Jupiter's moons. Its journey will include flybys of Earth and Venus. Here's what you need to know
It had been due to blast off into space today .The next launch window is expected to be at around 1.14pm BST on Friday
It will be fired skyward aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the ESA's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.launching from Europe, but rather a French territory on the north coast of South America. If the timings go to plan, Juice will separate from the upper stage of Ariane 5 at 1.42pm UK time, and should send its first signal down to the Earth's surface by 1.51pm, allowing mission crews to take control of the craft.Quite some time, you certainly won't be tuning in for a livestream of the entire mission.
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