The ESAs Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission Juice successfully launched today from Europes spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was supposed to take place yesterday but was postponed due to poor weather conditions. Today, the stars aligned and Juice was successfully blasted into orbit at approximately 14:19 CEST. It took only two minutes for the Ariane 5 rocket to transport Juice into space, shortly after which it separated from the satellite, which now begins its 8-year journey to Jupiter. Juice will make the 6.6 billion km trip to study three of Jupiters 92 known moons: Ganymede,…
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