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I was one of the 30 science communicators selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to participate in the Juice Social Space event on 12-13 April 2023!
I joined them at ESA's ESOC Mission Control Center in Darmstadt (Germany) for the launch of Juice, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer!
Thank you European Space Agency for the opportunity to participate in this fantastic Social Space event!
I joined them at ESA's ESOC Mission Control Center in Darmstadt (Germany) for the launch of Juice, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer!
Thank you European Space Agency for the opportunity to participate in this fantastic Social Space event!
In front of ESA ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany
Inside the Mission Control Room
Model of the Ariane 5 rocket
The main Control Room of ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Center in Germany.
As the European center of excellence for satellite operations, ESA Mission Control hosts the engineering teams that control spacecraft in orbit.
Juice
Juice, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer satellite, will carry out detailed observations of the gas planet and its three moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of geophysical and remote sensing instruments.
It will take eight years and three planetary flybys for Juice to enter orbit around the gas giant.
Once there, it will make 35 flybys of its largest icy moons before changing orbit to Ganymede, the largest and most massive of the three.
Artist impression of the Juice mission. (Credits: ESA)
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