Live Coverage of Lunar-Earth flyby of ESA’s Juice space probe on her way to the icy moons of Jupiter.
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Our live coverage of the Juice Lunar-Earth flyby is now completed. We thank you for your attention. See you next time. Clear skies and bye bye. If you want to see more of our content join Juice is now on it's way to Venus for a last flyby before heading to Jupiter and it's icy moons. The Venus flyby will be on August 25th 2025 and we will be live with you as it happens. The final video as Juice flyby Earth last night. Juice's spectacular view to the Moon craters as the space probe flyby the moon A video from Juice's monitoring CAM 2 as Juice is passing the Moon Time Laps of the ESA Deep Space Network antenna in New Norica in Australia. ESA hat confirmed a successful flyby on Earth of Juice. We will inform you about updates tomorrow morning. We thank you for your attention tonight. Clear skies and good night! If you want to see more of our content join Around 1:53 CEST Juice will leave the geostationary orbit and at around 8:10 CEST tomorrow morning connection to Juice is restored and the Juice monitoring cameras are switched off. Juice is now in geostationary orbit and closer to Earth than satellites in geostationary orbit. The ESA Space Debris Office confirmed that Juice's trajectory is free from space debris or active satellites. Juice's path tonight is clear. Juice's instruments are now back online and ready to collect data. It's the chance for the ESA engineers to calibrate the instruments and to smooth out any remaining issues. The trajectory adjustments operated during the Lunar-Earth flyby preparing Juice for it's flyby at Venus on August 25th 2025. The Lunar-Earth flyby has several advantages for Juice mission. First it brings Juice one step closer to Jupiter and saves a lot of propellant. ESA can also ensure instruments for extra science at Ganymede moon. Around 4 hours ago Juice has turned its science instruments towards Earth. The preparation for the closest approach to our home planet has begun. It's being 2 minutes early at 23:56 CEST tonight. During the day, ESA reported that the trajectory adjustment was successful and no correction was necessary to complete today's flyby on Earth. The closest approach to Earth is around Midnight giving Juice a great push in velocity. Tonight at 21:58 CEST Juice will reach the geostationary orbit to Earth. During this time ESA's Deep Space Network will not be able to communicate with Juice. This is because ESA does not operate antennas in the northern Hemisphere. Earth shows itself as a dark circle outlined by a light crescent at the top centre of the image, shoot after the closest approach. This successful flyby of the Moon slightly redirected Juice’s path through space to put it on course for a flyby of Earth. New pictures from the moon taken by Juice. Here we see some clear impact craters and we see some sign of real colour differences in the large-scale features on the lunar surface. A new raw-picture from Juice of the far-side of the moon. We will receive new and processed images tomorrow morning from ESA. We finish our live coverage at this point. We continue this live coverage thread tomorrow with the Earth flyby and new images from Juice. We thank you for your attention here on our website and on BlueSky. Have a good night. If you want to see more of our content join The uplink process from the ESA Deep Space network antenna in Australia is still in progress. Then new images will be downloaded. ESA operates this flyby with three antennas of it's Deep Space Network in Argentina, Spain and Australia. The Ganymede moon of Jupiter will be the last target for Juice with a very close approach in the 2030s. For hobby astronomers it might be difficult to observe Juice at the flyby but bigger telescopes can observe Juice from Earth and from the northern hemisphere. Another new image where we can see the craters of the moon much better. Photo: ESA The images that we see are raw images without calibration. These is a premiere for ESA to show images live without calibration. Images with calibration adjustments will be published tomorrow. The image download from Juice will be switched to another antenna station now as the station in Madrid gets out of range. JMC-1 camera image from the moon. Photo: ESA ESA confirms again the Juice is healthy and that every works alright. The space debris collision detection center of ESA have been observed if Juice can may collide with space debris. But the ESA has give a go that there is no risk of a collision with space debris tomorrow. Juice will pass Earth over the northern pacific ocean. ESA has antennas in the pacific areas but only on the southern hemisphere. This is why ESA is not be able to make a live stream tomorrow. But the early evening they will lost contact until Wednesday morning. The delta-velocity that Juice receives from moon is around 10% of what Earth give on power. Juice will also do two more Earth flyby's. This is necessary because the tanks to not carry enough propellant to give the necessary power. Imagine the Art of NASA. Amazon (US): https://amzn.to/3t0iRSH *Affiliate Links At Europa, moon of Jupiter, we think there is a different consistence of the interior and the outside that we see from the moon. Juice will also try to find out of this objective is right. We have two new pictures. A bit dark but on the second picture we can already see the moon craters. Photos: ESA On August 25th 2025, the next flyby will happen. At this time Juice will flyby Venus. It's the last flyby before Juice will arrive in Jupiter in July 2031. ESA does the proof of concept now for further missions. In case, ESA has also the chance for an emergency trajectory change if anything goes wrong at the flyby. No other space agency has made a double gravity assist in history at the moment. gravity assists are always risky but Juice is designed in a way that ESA trust the space probe to manage a double gravity assist. ESA will publish better quality pictures by tomorrow. Still we await more pictures tonight from the moon. It's one of the seldom moments that a European space probe is so close to the moon to shoot some pictures. We have a first image showing the view before Juice entered the moon orbit. Photo: ESA The monitoring camera's made the pictures. The cameras have been installed to observe the deployment of instruments after the launch. But these cameras still work. Maybe we don't see the best quality today. The download of the images has already started. The operation is closely watched by the ESA control center in Darmstadt, Germany. The pictures from Juice are received from the ESA antenna in Spain, close to Madrid. Another illustration of the Lunar flyby as we still wait for the first pictures from Juice. Photo: ESA ESA reports that the communication with Juice has been restored Photo: ESA Juice science instruments are working until Wednesday morning around 8:10 CEST collecting data from the Moon and Earth, get tested and adjusted for the flight time ahead. Get your telescope now to watch the night sky in detail with your own eyes. *Affiliate Links Tomorrow's closest approach to Earth will be in a distance of 6807 kilometres approximately short before midnight. One hour after the closest approach the science instruments will begin it's work. It's a first test of the RIME cameras. All instruments will be needed when Juice arrives the Jupiter moons in 2031. At 23:25 CEST Juice will start sending it's pictures to Earth. With some luck we will see the first pictures before midnight. Before the Juice approached the moon orbit it made some selfies of itself and sent them back to Earth. At 23:07 CEST Juice will start it's camera to make some shoots from the moon. at 23:16 CEST Juice will have it's closest approach to the moon in a distance of 700 kilometres. Between 22:38 and 23:09 CEST Juice will be in the moon shadow and there will be no contact to earth in this time. Juice operates the worlds-first Lunar-Earth flyby in human history. It's not the only flyby as gravity assist for the flight to the icy moons of Jupiter. Welcome to our Live Coverage of the world-first Lunar-Earth flyby of ESA’s Juice Our live coverage will start tonight at 22:30 CEST here and on BlueSky. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter
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