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Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus

A software timing bug caused the anomaly on July 16, but ESA teams swiftly restored communication to ensure Juice is ready for its 31 August Venus flyby.

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The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth.

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One of the ESTRACK – ESA antennas On July 16, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Juice probe gave a good scare to its own and strangers when it did not communicate with the mission's control during a scheduled data transfer session. Fortunately in just twenty hours everything was resolved. The communication session was through the ESCRACK Cebreros station, the agency's space mission tracking network, in Spain. By not giving signs of life Juice an…

The European Juice probe, whose final destination is Jupiter, prepares for an overflight of Venus that approaches its target, after the engineers spent 20 hours solving a problem in the ship that cut off communications with the Earth. The entrance The Juice ship is preparing to fly over Venus, after solving a communication problem was first published in Digital Process.

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The European Space Agency broke the news in Paris, France on Monday, August 25, 2025.
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