Juice Spacecraft to Pass Earth En Route to Jupiter

An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, in April.

Photographer: Stephane Corvaja/European Space Agency/AP
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The European Space Agency's Juice craft will return to Earth on Monday night, taking part in a "world first" fly-by.

Flight controllers from Esa will guide the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), with UK instruments on board, past the Moon and then Earth.