Juice’s journey to Jupiter and its icy moons: The Venus flyby ????

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Our Juice spacecraft passed its closest point to Venus on 31 August, as it completed the second of four planned gravity assists.

The Venus flyby gave Juice a significant boost. When it next encounters Earth in September 2026, the spacecraft will have reached the required Jupiter transfer velocity of 11 km/s. However, Jupiter won’t be in the right place to send Juice out towards it just yet. Juice will use the Earth flyby in 2026 to further fine-tune its trajectory.

After one more orbit around the Sun, the spacecraft will return to Earth for a final flyby in January 2029. This flyby will be used to send Juice on a transfer trajectory that intercepts Jupiter in July 2031.

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