#esajuice — Public Fediverse posts

2026-05-13 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-06)

WHERE IS JUICE?
- Barycentric speed: 18.93 km/s (+0.11 km/s)
- Earth Gravity Assist in: 137 days

🟠 Relative to Jupiter
- Distance (km): 1,016,557,704.69 km (+1,122,559.27 km)
- Distance (AU): 6.80 (+0.01)
- Light travel time: 56 min 30.97 s (+3.74 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 192,522,379.94 km (-11,096,644.02 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.29 (-0.07)
- Light travel time: 10 min 42.21 s (-37.02 s)

#JUICEMission #ESAJuice

2026-05-06 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-04-29)

WHERE IS JUICE?
- Barycentric speed: 18.81 km/s (+0.07 km/s)
- Earth Gravity Assist in: 144 days

🟠 Relative to Jupiter
- Distance (km): 1,015,435,145.42 km (+1,705,879.82 km)
- Distance (AU): 6.79 (+0.01)
- Light travel time: 56 min 27.23 s (+5.69 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 203,619,023.96 km (-10,816,260.03 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.36 (-0.07)
- Light travel time: 11 min 19.22 s (-36.08 s)

#JUICEMission #ESAJuice

2026-04-29 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-04-22)

WHERE IS JUICE?
- Barycentric speed: 18.74 km/s (+0.03 km/s)
- Earth Gravity Assist in: 151 days

🟠 Relative to Jupiter
- Distance (km): 1,013,729,264.35 km (+2,283,869.76 km)
- Distance (AU): 6.78 (+0.02)
- Light travel time: 56 min 21.54 s (+7.62 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 214,435,287.61 km (-10,488,939.26 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.43 (-0.07)
- Light travel time: 11 min 55.30 s (-34.99 s)

#JUICEMission #ESAJuice

2026-04-22 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-04-15)

WHERE IS JUICE?
- Barycentric speed: 18.71 km/s (-0.01 km/s)
- Earth Gravity Assist in: 158 days

🟠 Relative to Jupiter
- Distance (km): 1,011,445,394.59 km (+2,859,976.69 km)
- Distance (AU): 6.76 (+0.02)
- Light travel time: 56 min 13.92 s (+9.54 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 224,924,226.87 km (-10,106,403.32 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.50 (-0.07)
- Light travel time: 12 min 30.29 s (-33.71 s)

#JUICEMission #ESAJuice

The ESA Space Debris Office confirmed that Juice's trajectory is free from space debris or active satellites. Juice's path tonight is clear. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

Juice is now in geostationary orbit and closer to Earth than satellites in geostationary orbit. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

The trajectory adjustments operated during the Lunar-Earth flyby preparing Juice for it's flyby at Venus on August 25th 2025. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

During the day, ESA reported that the trajectory adjustment was successful and no correction was necessary to complete today's flyby on Earth. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

The closest approach to Earth is around Midnight giving Juice a great push in velocity. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

This is because ESA does not operate antennas in the northern Hemisphere. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

#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 ESA CC-BY 3.0 IGO #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Jupiter #Space

New pictures from the #moon. 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 Photo: ESA Licensed: CC-BY 3.0 IGO CREDIT: ESA/Juice/JMC #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Earth #Jupiter #Space #science

A new raw-picture from Juice of the far-side of the moon. Photo: ESA #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter #Space #science

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Signal Messenger Group

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

ESA operates this flyby with three antennas of it's Deep Space Network in Argentina, Spain and Australia. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

The uplink process from the ESA Deep Space network antenna in Australia is still in progress. Then new images will be downloaded. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

The Ganymede moon of Jupiter will be the last target for Juice with a very close approach in the 2030s. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

Another new image where we can see the craters of the moon much better. Photo: ESA #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

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. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

The image download from Juice will be switched to another antenna station now as the station in Madrid gets out of range. #ESAJuice #JuiceMission #LunarEarthFlyby #ESA #Lunar #Earth #Moon #IcyMoons #Jupiter

ESA Juice’s RIME Antenna Breaks Free After Some Jiggling and Percussive Action - After ESA’s Jupiter-bound space probe Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) launched ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/13/esa-juices-rime-antenna-breaks-free-after-some-jiggling-and-percussive-action/ #percussivemaintenance #nonexplosiveactuator #satellite #esajuice #space #news

We're incredibly excited and proud that our software is on its way to Jupiter on board ESA's #JUICE mission. May the 4th be with you, #ESAJuice, boldly exploring new worlds like a true Jedi. 🚀 #MayThe4th #SpaceAdventures #InterstellarTeam

We're incredibly excited and proud that our software is on its way to Jupiter on board ESA's #JUICE mission. May the 4th be with you, #ESAJuice, boldly exploring new worlds like a true Jedi. 🚀 #MayThe4th #SpaceAdventures #InterstellarTeam

We're incredibly excited and proud that our software is on its way to Jupiter on board ESA's #JUICE mission. May the 4th be with you, #ESAJuice, boldly exploring new worlds like a true Jedi. 🚀 #MayThe4th #SpaceAdventures #InterstellarTeam

We're incredibly excited and proud that our software is on its way to Jupiter on board ESA's #JUICE mission. May the 4th be with you, #ESAJuice, boldly exploring new worlds like a true Jedi. 🚀 #MayThe4th #SpaceAdventures #InterstellarTeam

Pretty good moons.
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#ESAJuice will also observe several smaller inner moons — #Metis, #Adrastea, #Amalthea and #Thebeto — to understand how they emit dust that replenishes Jupiter’s rings.

Read more about all these moons 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/The_moons_of_Jupiter_What_will_Juice_discover and follow the launch on 13 April.
https://twitter.com/ESA_JUICE/status/1641795565867376640