The Jupiter Icy moons Explorer (Juice) is an ESA planetary exploration mission currently under construction, development and testing at different sites across Europe. This is the eighth episode of a series, in which we take the viewer behind the scenes of the Juice mission, and into the world of European space industry, space technology and the planetary science community.
In this episode, Manuela Baroni, Juice AIT and Launcher Interface Engineer at ESA and Stefan Engelke, Test and Analysis Engineer at Airbus, describe the magnetic test campaign that took place in mid-August 2022. To measure the magnetic fields of Jupiter and its icy moons, Juice must be very clean from a magnetic point of view, meaning that the magnetic interference from the instruments and electronics on the spacecraft must to be as small as possible. This test was the first of its kind ever performed on a whole spacecraft.
This episode is part of a film project that will result in a one-hour documentary film to be released before the launch of Juice.
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