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It's a big mission that will launch from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Thursday. The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending up its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, to ― well, explore three of Jupiter's icy moons.
Doesn't sound too exciting yet? Then consider that one of the mission's goals is to characterize "these moons as both planetary objects and possible habitats," according to ESA. In other words, the mission aims to find out if life could be possible on Ganymede, Europa or Callisto, or whether life has existed on the moons in the past.
The Juice project is a mission of many firsts. The spacecraft, which is being sent up on an Ariane 5 rocket, will be the first to change orbits from another planet (Jupiter) to one of its moons. And it will be the first to orbit a moon other than the Earth's.
The total costs of the mission stand at around €1.6 billion ($1.7 billion). Juice will carry several high-tech systems on board, "including the most powerful remote sensing, geophysical and in situ payloads ever flown to the outer solar system," ESA says.
While the mission is European-led, there has been wider international collaboration.NASA contributed one of the instruments, a UV imaging spectrograph. The Japanese space agency JAXA contributed hardware for several of the instruments on board the spacecraft, while the Israeli space agency ISA contributed hardware for a radio science experiment.

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