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Juice Spacecraft Prepares for Venus Flyby, Aims for Jupiter
8/27/2025
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- The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft will perform a gravity-assist flyby of Venus on 31 August.
- Engineers resolved a communication issue from 16 July, identifying a software bug as the cause.
- During the flyby, Juice will use its high-gain antenna as a thermal shield, without capturing images of Venus.
- The mission aims to explore Jupiter and its moons, with arrival scheduled for July 2031.
