STP137 - JUICE - Everything You Need To Go - with Professor Michele Dougherty

Apr 13

This week sees the launch of ESA’s Jupiter Icey Moons Explorer (JUICE) from French Guiana. So we wanted to find out more about it so today we’re talking to Professor Michele Dougherty, the principle investigator for the magnetometer on board the spacecraft.

Professor Michele Dougherty:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.dougherty

JUICE:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice

Things That Have Caught Our Eye This Week:
Rings around Uranus! James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning image of ice giant:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-uranus-rings-photo

Delays to NASA's VERITAS mission a major blow for Venus exploration:
https://www.space.com/veritas-mission-delay-affect-venus-exploration

Planetary Society leads the charge to save NASA's VERITAS Venus mission:
https://www.space.com/planetary-society-save-nasa-veritas-venus-mission

Dawn Aerospace's space plane aces first rocket-powered flights:
https://www.space.com/dawn-aerospace-space-plane-first-rocket-powered-flights-video

SpaceX eyeing 3rd week of April for Starship orbital launch, Elon Musk says:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-orbital-launch-third-week-april

Image Credits: ESA

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A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.

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Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.

In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

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