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Heading for Jupiter! 🚀 👏 Our congratulations to European Space Agency - ESA! Their Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (#JUICE) successfully completed its groundbreaking lunar-Earth flyby this week. Its double gravity assist maneuver saw it use gravity to slow the spacecraft and change its trajectory, putting it on the path for the rest of its 7-year trip to Jupiter. The mission is designed to survive some incredibly tough space conditions, including high doses of radiation when it finally reaches Jupiter in one of the most dangerous radiation belts in our Solar System. 🔎 On board for JUICE's trip through the Solar System is our optical glass: when the spacecraft reaches Jupiter, our optical glass will help the Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) instrument study the landscape of Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. Selected for this mission because of their radiation-resistance, our BK7G18 and K5G20 are used for lenses in the beam expander optics of the laser transmitter. Developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), GALA was built by the HENSOLDT team, working together with several international research institutes. Additionally, our optical glass F2G12 and LAK9G15 are used in JUICE’s “eye,” its JANUS camera system, built by Leonardo. JANUS will be providing high-resolution multispectral images of Jupiter's large moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These images will help scientists map the surface of these icy moons. What’s next for JUICE? It will be doing a Venus fly-by next year and two more Earth flybys, and will reach Jupiter by 2031. Congratulations to everyone involved, and stay tuned for the rest of JUICE’s voyage! #space #spaceoptics Photos: 1) JUICE Flyby of the Moon (Credit: ESA/Juice/JMC) 2) GALA Instrument (Credit: HENSOLDT Electronics) 3) JANUS Camera System (Credit: LDO)

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Exciting milestone! Congratulations to everyone involved—looking forward to seeing JUICE reach Jupiter and what new discoveries it will bring!

Hafiezf Izzuddin

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Galileo Galilei will be awestruck by the advancement of optics technology since his era. Congratulations SCHOTT. Many more new adventures awaits.

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