ESA’s mission to Jupiter’s moons will launch this April. The European House Company’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission is able to ship to a launch facility in French Guiana the place it can launch in April. The mission will take eight years to achieve the Jupiter system, the place it can research doubtlessly ocean-bearing moons Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. Pictured: An artist’s impression of JUICE at Jupiter. Picture credit score: ESA.
Ingenuity continues to be maintaining with Perseverance. Practically two years after touchdown on Mars, the small, experimental drone spacecraft not too long ago accomplished its fortieth flight. It has been following the Perseverance rover on its route throughout the Martian terrain, efficiently demonstrating the viability of utilizing a flying spacecraft to discover one other world.
Business launches will quickly be capable of occur in Canada. This week the Authorities of Canada introduced a brand new regulatory framework for industrial launches from Canadian soil, increasing the nation’s area capabilities.
The Lucy spacecraft’s photo voltaic array continues to be going through points. When the NASA mission to review the Jupiter Trojan asteroids launched in October 2021, one in all its two photo voltaic arrays didn’t deploy appropriately. Though the mission workforce states it’s nonetheless functioning adequately, their efforts to appropriate its deployment proceed to be fruitless. The workforce will resume efforts to repair it late subsequent yr when the spacecraft heads again towards the Solar on its lengthy trajectory towards the orbit of Jupiter.
