Juice?s journey to Jupiter
This animation shows the proposed trajectory of ESA?s Jupiter Icy Moons Explore (Juice) mission to Jupiter.
Based on a launch in June 2022, the spacecraft will make a series of gravity-assist flybys at Earth (May 2023, September 2024 and November 2026), Venus (October 2023) and Mars (February 2025) before arriving in the Jupiter system in October 2029.
The animation ends at the Jupiter orbit insertion point, but the planned 3.5 year mission will see Juice not only orbit Jupiter, but also make dedicated flybys of the moons Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, before orbiting the largest moon, Ganymede.
More about Juice:
http://sci.esa.int/juice/
The first gravity assist is useless, I calculated it and dV bonus is practically zero, they should send the craft directly to Venus and save a whole year
but what if it was Footballl,.,.,.,.
It may not be ready for this term (2022).