ESALIVEJupiter Icy Moons Explorer - 2023-053A
JUICE
Slingshotting toward Jupiter
PHASE 01
Launch & commissioning
Apr 2023 ✓
PHASE 02
Earth-Moon assist
Aug 2024 ✓
PHASE 03
Venus gravity assist
Aug 2025 ✓
PHASE 04 - ACTIVE
Cold-cruise - Earth #2
Sep 2026
PHASE 05
Earth #3 - Jupiter transfer
Jan 2029
PHASE 06
Jupiter orbit insertion
Jul 2031
◆ INNER-CRUISE - HELIOCENTRIC - SUN-FIXED FRAMESCALE - 1.5 AU
PROJECTION - ECLIPTIC J2000UPDATED 17 APR 2026 UTC
- Telemetry
JUICE at a glance.
Distance - Earth
0.21AU
31,436,018 km - signal lag 1m 44s one-way
Heliocentric velocity
22.4km/s
slowing - 50,100 mph
Days in flight
1,261
14 Apr 2023 - today
Gravity assists
2of 5
Moon - Venus done
Next flyby
3days
Earth gravity assist - 30 Sep 2026
Distance - Sun
1.04AU
155.6M km
DSN contact
DSS-43
Canberra - 2-way doppler lock
- Status
The quiet part of the flight.
JUICE is in the cold-cruise phase of its eight-year journey to Jupiter, having successfully completed its Venus gravity assist on 31 August 2025. Launched from Kourou on 14 April 2023, the spacecraft has already pulled off the first lunar-Earth gravity assist in spaceflight history and, in late 2025, imaged the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from 0.428 AU.
Next up is the second of three Earth flybys, on 30 September 2026, en route to Jupiter system arrival in July 2031.
- Sources
Where the data comes from.
Mission - Operator
ESA JUICE mission page
www.esa.int
↗Telemetry - Live
JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov
↗Comms - DSN
NASA Deep Space Network live feed
eyes.nasa.gov
↗Launch - Library
Launch Library 2 API
ll.thespacedevs.com
↗Imagery
ESA Science Gateway - JUICE imagery
sci.esa.int
↗Editorial - News
JUICE journey tracker
sci.esa.int
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