The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is an ESA interplanetary spacecraft, launched April 14, 2023 from Guiana Space Centre to study Jupiter's Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa, thought to have significant bodies of liquid water beneath their icy surfaces.

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Well I hope they accounted for the more dense than usual interplanetary dust, as well as its growth over the next decade. That's one thing that wasn't accounted for with regards to many satellites whose orbits are now decaying because of this.