JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system |
JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system |
Feb 16 2012, 09:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Yellow book is available (13.1.2012) - JUICE.
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Mar 16 2022, 10:02 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 255 Joined: 28-October 12 Member No.: 6732 |
Many thanks! Cosmographia gave me an error message when I tried (not very hard) to load the JSON file, however WebGeocalc works fine for me, with the help of the above example.
If I made no mistake, Launch: 2023-04-05 Moon : 2024-08-19 Earth : 2024-08-20 Venus : 2025-08-31 Earth : 2026-09-28 Earth : 2029-01-17 JOI : 2031-07-21 (a year earlier than with the August 2023 launch trajectory) |
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Mar 16 2022, 04:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 14-January 22 Member No.: 9140 |
It's remarkable – almost comical – that after a quarter century, two missions are going to arrive for overlapping jovian system science at almost the same time. Now it looks like Europa Clipper will make a close pass of Europa before JUICE does but it's like watching a close horse race. And won't really matter; it'll be great to get the complementary science as both make observations with similar but non-identical instruments.
Interestingly, both missions' radar instruments have a mode at 9 MHz, which might make them a little less complementary than redundant in kind. Still, 46 radar tracks is better than 44. |
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