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A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the Moon next month in a high-stakes, world-first maneuver as it pinballs its way through the Solar System to Jupiter.
Staff at the ESA’s space operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany began preparing for the complicated manoeuvre this week.It will take the scenic route. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is scheduled to launch this October yet beat Juice to Jupiter’s moons by a year. Without an enormous rocket, sending Juice straight to Jupiter would require 60 tonnes of onboard propellant – and Juice has just three tonnes, according to the ESA.
By flying close to planets, spacecrafts can take advantage of their gravitational pull, which can change its course, speed it up or slow it down.
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