Welcome to ESA's website for the JUICE science working team

 

 

 

 

JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The mission was launched on 14 April 2023 and will arrive at Jupiter in July 2031, it will spend at least four years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.

Timeline

May 2012: Mission selection

February 2013: Payload selection

November 2014: Mission adoption

July 2015: Prime industrial contractor selection

Mars 2016: Mission and System Requirements Review completed

March 2017: Spacecraft Preliminary Design Review completed

June 2017: Instrument Preliminary Design Reviews completed

December 2017: Ground Segment Requirements Review completed

December 2018: Ground Segment Design Review completed

March 2019: Spacecraft Critical Design Review completed

April 2019: Science Ground Segment Design Review completed

September 2019: Start of the assembly of the spacecraft flight model

November 2019: Instrument Critical Design Reviews completed

November 2022: Ground Segment Readiness review completed

18 January 2023: Qualification and acceptance review completed

9 February 2023: Spacecraft shipped to Kourou

22 February 2023: Science ground segment Readiness review completed

14 April 2023: Launch from CSG