ESA’s JUICE probe completes Moon flyby

New Delhi: The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) has successfully completed its flyby of the moon and on Tuesday it is expected to zoom past the Earth, marking a double-first in space history.

“ESAJuice has just passed its closest point to the surface of the Moon! The spacecraft zipped by at just 750km from its surface,” ESA said in a post on X.com on Tuesday.

The spacecraft flew past the Moon at 23.30 CEST on August 19 (3:00 am IST, August 20).