ESA’s Juice spacecraft completes world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer — aka Juice — harnessed the gravity of Earth to sling itself in the direction of Venus.

Gravitational forces then guided the spacecraft towards a closest approach to Earth at 23:56 CEST the next day.

Juice made it closet approach to the Moon at 23:15 CEST on August 19.

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