ESA’s Automated System Issues False Alarm, Identifies Juice Spacecraft Instead of Asteroid
The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed that its automated planetary defense system issued a warning on July 6 after detecting an object hurtling towards Earth. However, follow-up observations determined that the object was not an asteroid but instead ESA’s Juice spacecraft, which is en route to the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission. Juice’s solar panel … Read more