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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
July 2023: End of the Near Earth Commissioning / start of the cruise phase