Watch LIVE: ESA’s Jupiter-bound space mission makes second launch attempt today

Watch LIVE: ESA’s Jupiter-bound space mission makes second launch attempt today


The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission — ‘Juice’ — is ready to embark on its journey to the solar system’s largest planet. Juice is scheduled to launch today, April 14, at 14:14 CEST (13:15 BST) from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.  The launch was supposed to take place yesterday but was postponed due to poor weather conditions. Juice will make the 8-year, 6.6 billion km trip to study three of Jupiter’s moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. Each of these worlds has an ocean of water hidden underneath an icy shell — an important target for…

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