https://spacewatch.global/tag/juice-mission/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:46:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/juice-mission/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/02/the-space-cafe-podcast-126-with-professor-luciano-iess/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=63858 The Cassini spacecraft’s final moments were like a fading heartbeat—one last signal before silence. In this episode, Professor Luciano Iess takes us on a journey across the solar system, from Saturn’s icy moons to Venus’s runaway greenhouse effect. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/04/trad-software-ready-for-juice-launch/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:00:44 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=47939 TRAD's (Tests and Radiation) technology will be on board the JUICE space probe which will launch on the 13th of April at 09:15 local time on board the Ariane 5 which will launch from the European spaceport Kourou.  ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/01/italian-space-agency-reveals-2023-strategy/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45950 The President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Mr. Giorgio Saccoccia, announced today the guidelines and objectives of the national space agency for 2023. ASI, recently back from a very successful CM22, explained that for 2023 it intends to carry on its long-standing collaboration with ESA and NASA, open new strategic international goals, and keep pushing its national interests.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/07/astronomers-uncover-evidence-of-water-at-jupiters-ganymede/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:00:59 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=34670 Previously, research has suggested the presence of molecular oxygen (O2) after auroral bands were discovered in the ultraviolet (UV) images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. However, when comparing these to recent datasets, astronomers have discovered that there was almost no O2 in the atmosphere in 2018 implying another reason for the charged particle bands.]]>