## JUICE Mission to Swing by Earth on September 28 On April 23rd, the European Space Agency launched its JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE), a robotic explorer mission bound for Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa. Since then, mission controllers have performed several maneuvers intended to put the spacecraft on a trajectory that will deposit it around Jupiter by July 2031. The next maneuver will be a gravity assist with Earth, which will take place on Monday, September 28th, with its closest pass (8,640 km; 5,370 mi) at 13:45 CEST (07:45 a.m. EST; 04:45 a.m. PST). The first maneuver occurred…