Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby 🧃 #shorts

Our Juice spacecraft returned to Earth to complete the world’s first Lunar-Earth gravity assist.

Flight controllers guided the spacecraft past the Moon and then the Earth, ‘braking’ the spacecraft.

This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via Venus on its way to Jupiter.

📹 ESA – European Space Agency
🖥️ ESA

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