Home > Europe's JUICE mission blasts off towards Jupiter's icy moons

Sciences
Europe's JUICE mission blasts off towards Jupiter's icy moons

Description

The European Space Agency's JUICE space probe successfully launched on a mission to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life in their vast, hidden oceans. The rocket was launched from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and its trajectory is "nominal", i.e. in line with what is expected, according to the teams on site. IMAGES

Added on the 14/04/2023 16:59:50 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images

To customise your video :

Or Create an account

More videos on the subject

  • First US lunar lander in five decades blasts off on private mission

    United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s brand new Vulcan rocket, carrying NASA’s first Peregrine Lunar Lander by private firm Astrobotic Technology, blasts off successfully for the first time from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. IMAGES

    08/01/2024 - AFPTV - First images
  • NASA mission to smash spacecraft into asteroid blasts off

    A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if its course can be altered blasts off from California. The SpaceX rocket carrying the experiment lifted off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time (0621 GMT Wednesday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA TV's livestream showed. IMAGES

    24/11/2021 - AFPTV - First images
  • SpaceX rocket blasts off on all-civilian orbital mission

    SpaceX sends "Inspiration4", the first all-civilian crew, into Earth's orbit, capping a summer of private spaceflight with one of the most ambitious tourism missions to date. IMAGES

    16/09/2021 - AFPTV - First images
  • Europe's exoplanet hunter blasts off from Earth

    Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite leaves Earth a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. IMAGES

    18/12/2019 - AFPTV - First images
  • NASA’s Juno mission to arrive at Jupiter on July 4

    NASA’s Juno spacecraft is set to arrive at Jupiter on July 4 in a mission to study how the gas giant was formed and evolved.

    25/06/2016 - Reuters - Next Media

More videosSciences