The launch was canceled Thursday due to the risk of lightning. The mission of this probe is both to understand the gas giant and its main natural satellites.
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The next attempt will be in 24 hours, at the same time to within 30 seconds. The launch of the European probe Juice to Jupiter, scheduled for Thursday, April 13, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, has been postponed until Friday due to bad weather conditions, Arianespace announced. The takeoff, scheduled for 12:45 GMT from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana, was postponed due to a “weather red”, namely the risk of lightning, said the European Space Agency (ESA).
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The postponement was announced just minutes before the final count, from the Jupiter control room where several personalities were gathered, including the King of the Belgians Philippe and the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
ESA’s flagship mission, Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is to explore Jupiter and its icy moons, in search of habitable environments for extraterrestrial life forms. The voyage is planned to last eight years. This is the first time that space Europe has soared to a planet in the outer solar system, which begins after Mars. The launch of Juice, at a cost of 1.6 billion euros, comes in the midst of a launcher crisis for Europe.
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