Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: Twenty four hours from now, ESA’s JUICE spacecraft will be hidden from Earth behind ...

Twenty four hours from now, ESA’s JUICE spacecraft will be hidden from Earth behind the Moon, heading towards its closest approach to the lunar surface at 700km at 23:16 CEST / 21:16 UTC.

A day later, JUICE will fly past Earth too, in a unique double Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist (LEGA) manoeuvre as part of its 8-year journey to Jupiter.

I’ll be at ESA’s Mission Control, ESOC, in Darmstadt for both, helping process the images – should be fun 🌗🛰️🌍🙂👍

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