The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by European Space Agency to orbit the 4 largest satellites of Jupiter - Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Lo.
The mission was launched on April 14, 2023 on an Ariane 5 from European Spaceport in French Guinea
The JUICE mission has payloads of 280 kg and carry various instruments for exploration of Galilean satellites
JUICE Mission is one of the first mission to find alien life on the icy worlds of Jupiter
The spacecraft will take 8 years to reach Jupiter in 2031
Now recently,there is a news that something is wrong with the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna of the spacecraft
The RIME instrument was meant to be used for investigating the surface and subsurface structure of Jupiter's icy moons upto a depth of 9km
RIME instrument was 1 of the 10 instruments to investigate the possibity of alien life on Jupiter's moons