Image: After months practicing with a 'fake' Juice spacecraft, teams at ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, today got in touch with the real thing. For the first time, mission engineers connected to the Ariane 5 rocket and inside its fairing the Juice spacecraft, for a dress rehearsal of the all-important "network countdown". The dress rehearsal is the moment that ESA's mission control brings together the various partners and elements of the mission for a final fully integrated t...
Image: After months practicing with a 'fake' Juice spacecraft, teams at ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, today got in touch with the real thing. For the first time, mission engineers connected to the Ariane 5 rocket and inside its fairing the Juice spacecraft, for a dress rehearsal of the all-important "network countdown". The dress rehearsal is the moment that ESA's mission control brings together the various partners and elements of the mission for a final fully integrated t...
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