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Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter

Successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter

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The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) skimmed the very outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere on 28 September, using the gravity of our home planet to alter its route to Jupiter using very little fuel.

Summary by ESA, the primary source

Read the release at ESA