Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by NASA / ESA / JAXA at 28 Sept, 15:00 UTC

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter using very little fuel.

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• T1Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to JupiterNASA / ESA / JAXA28 Sept, 15:00