Frankfurt – Qena:
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the launch of the space probe “Joss” yesterday, to explore the moons of Jupiter, which is the longest journey undertaken by a probe affiliated with the agency. The probe launched at 2:14 pm CET from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, as evidenced by live broadcast images at the ESA control center in Darmstadt, Germany. The probe was scheduled to be launched by the “Ariane 5” rocket from the European Space Station Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday, but the launch was postponed due to a weather problem associated with the risk of lightning. The JUS space probe’s journey to Jupiter will last eight years, seeking to find out if there are environments suitable for life on the giant planet of the solar system and on its icy moons.