JUICE to Jupiter could be ESA`s next major science mission

Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 08:01 in Astronomy & Space

The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next major space mission for ESA be an orbiter mission to the Jupiter system named JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. This mission would launch in about 2020 and explore potentially habitable moon around the gas giant, Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede.

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