{"id":747873,"date":"2023-02-10T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747873"},"modified":"2023-02-10T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:10:00","slug":"juice-on-final-stretch-for-launch-to-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747873","title":{"rendered":"Juice on final stretch for launch to Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Juice_arrives_in_French_Guiana_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Juice arrives in French Guiana\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s mission to explore Jupiter and its largest moons has safely arrived at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, where final preparations for its April launch are now underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer \u2013 better known as Juice \u2013 arrived on 8 February at F\u00e9lix Ebou\u00e9 airport in Cayenne by a special Antonov Airlines An-124 cargo flight from Toulouse, France, where prime contractor Airbus completed a nearly decade-long process of concept, design, testing and construction. Now, the spacecraft will undergo final testing and inspection by engineers from ESA and Airbus before it is fueled up and mounted on its Ariane 5 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Ariane\/Juice_on_final_stretch_for_launch_to_Jupiter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juice on final stretch for launch to Jupiter<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s mission to explore Jupiter and its largest moons has safely arrived at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, where final preparations for its April launch are now underway. The Jupiter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747874,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/747874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}