{"id":748455,"date":"2023-02-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748455"},"modified":"2023-02-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:00:00","slug":"juice-one-step-closer-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748455","title":{"rendered":"Juice one step closer to launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Juice_one_step_closer_to_launch_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:04:54<\/p>\n<p>After many years of study, development, building and testing, ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has finally arrived at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. At the end of 2022 the spacecraft underwent its final thermal vacuum test at an Airbus Defence and Space facility in Toulouse, as well as its final software verification tests, whereby it was controlled from the ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, an Ariane 5 will lift Juice into orbit and send it on its journey to explore the largest planet in our Solar System and its three icy moons, Europa, Callisto and in particular Ganymede. By exploring and studying the Jovian system, the mission neatly fullfills its role in ESA\u2019s Cosmic Vision programme, teaching us about our Universe and the origins of life.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/02\/Juice_one_step_closer_to_launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juice one step closer to launch<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:04:54 After many years of study, development, building and testing, ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has finally arrived at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. At the end&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748456,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748455","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\/748455","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=748455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/748456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}