The making of Juice: the film

One giant planet. Three icy moons. An eight-year journey. One special spacecraft.

Building a mission to Jupiter took years of planning and thousands of people. Now that Juice is finally en route to its destination, we go behind the scenes to discover the story of the making of Juice.

The film features exclusive interviews with scientists and engineers from across Europe, as well as backstage footage from the planning, testing and launch of this once-in-a-generation mission.

Follow the final three years of Juice’s life on Earth. Discover why the mission was named Juice, how teams working on the spacecraft handled the COVID-19 pandemic, and why the spacecraft carries a special plaque dedicated to Galileo. Join Juice as it gets assembled, probed and tested to be certain that it is ready for Jupiter. And experience the emotion as Juice is put into a rocket and launched into space, marking the beginning of its 12-year adventure in the Solar System.

Release date: Thursday 23 November.

Credit: ESA/Lightcurve Films

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[realzico]

It is absurd to me that this video only has 32k views atm ( 2 weeks after created atm ). This mission will find life in our solar system if there is any chance in my life time. The work, the effort en the determination of this whole operation has me sitting on the edge of my seat for years, and many more to come! Thank you guys, I am rooting for you all! :)

[yeahamalice]

This should have millions of views. It's an amazing documentary!

[tanguerok]

I wish these long term projects could inspire everyone on planet Earh (well, mostly the new generations and those in any decision making position), let them realize that colaboration will always be far more rewarding than competition.
With no money to be made or threat to the planet to be dealt with, this project is another of the finest examples of what mankind can achieve when working together:
9 years in the making
8 years to get there
40 minutes for signal traveling in each direction...
Thank you all for your commitment, can't wait to learn about the first findings! :D

[lincolny]

Juice is a blessing to all who surround him

[MrHichammohsen]

This is GOLD! Thank you so much ESA for everything!

[williamstearns]

Fantastic documentary! Made not for the short attention span crowd, but for those of us with an enthusiastic sense of wonder and whose toes curl admiring your spacecraft and mission.

I love my career as a backcountry field scientist, but my 10 year old self desperately wants to be in the hanger building and testing the instruments or assembling the spacecraft.

But I’m very grateful you’ve allowed us the chance to peer over your shoulders for a couple hours and vicariously experience the amazing work you all do. Cheers!

[ΑστέριοςΑστερίου-ππ]

Thank you so much for creating such an amazing documentary! I was very disappointed to see such a small amount of views compered to what all this hard work deserves. I hope you didn't get unmotivated and won't create something similar for the next amazing mission.

[kaingott]

Thank you so much for this! I cried like 6 times during this documentary. Save journey, my little friend!

[AlexandrosDust]

I am really impressed to see that all of us that directly contributed to this mission, we all shared the same exact feelings after we knew about the acquired telemetry and so that the mission was starting.
This mission was a journey, and it is difficult to describe the fascination and anxiety, at the same time, to build a breadboard of a system and test it at -240°C : everytime there was something new (and bad) to discover. We had to push our ingenuity, with time running. We had to reshuffle materials and processes to be applied, because of radiations and temperatures. We had to work and manufacture entire subsystems during Covid.
But we did it.
We can tell to our kids that something we designed or touched is heading to 800 million km distance

[davidogilvie]

We are all riding along with this spacecraft. I can't wait until we arrive in Jupiter's vicinity in 2031. All these space missions have been highlights of my life. I have gone from a time when sending spacecraft to the planets was just a dream to a time when we have visited all the planets. Safe journeys, Juice!

[rojozeta]

Thank you for a reason to see full 2 hours of this great documental, Big UP JUICE!! Y saludos a todos los colegas españoles :)

[EmilianoGirina]

I am a 45 year old boy who dreams of one day hearing the discovery of alien life announced. If there is a chance today, it comes from the JUICE mission. I have followed it with trepidation since the beginning and now that it is in flight it continues to not fail to thrill me. The team has done a more than exceptional job. Congratulations to them and to whoever made this beautiful documentary.

[sunlight]

Thanks for sharing this amazing journey!

[andycordy]

A magnificent production. You have presented this wonderful collaborative venture so comprehensively. So many extraordinary people, so much mind boggling design, construction and logistics. I'm so happy to witness this and I hope that I will still be alive and able to appreciate the science when it starts to roll in.
The scale of the spacecraft is astonishing, I was imagining something the size of a washing machine😂😂. The stats for the solar panels😮 just amazing. Bon voyage, tout le monde!

[arieverhoeff]

Today one year ago Juice set off on it's journey to the Jupiter system. Congratulations ESA ✨✨🎉🎉🎈🎈🚀🚀

[ptonpc]

​Watching catch up. I'm enjoying it. Safe flight and congratulations to all who worked and will work on Juice.

[spedrun]

Only learned about this today. I'm personally a saturn enjoyer but any solar system exploration gets me super hyped

[shroomzzz]

I am so pumped for this mission! SCIENCE!!!

[Tom]

Well made video/documentary for this marvellous piece of engineering to push the borders of mankind's knowledge of the universe.
Thank you so much!

[torgeirpaulsen]

Wonderful production. So many good memories