JUICE
JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) is an ESA mission to Jupiter and its Galilean moons. The three-year mission will use the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants and their icy moons and to assess the habitability of the moons.
Current status: JUICE successfully launched on 14 April 2023.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s involvement: 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College JUICE J-MAG – an outboard 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer (FGM). Hardware for this instrument will be provided by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Space Magnetometer Laboratory. The principal investigator is Professor Michele Dougherty, who led on the magnetometer analysis of the Cassini-Huygens mission.
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