Under Aliens Guys, this week on Planetary Radio, I'm Sarah Alahmed of the Planetary Society

with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Are you a fan of the bad astronomer?

We're about to dive into Philplates' brand new book Under Aliens Guys, a sightseers

guide to the universe.

We'll bring you some of the latest space news from around the globe and as always, we'll

check in with Bruce Bats for our What's Up segment and a chance to win a copy of Under Aliens

Guys in our space trivia contest.

Congratulations to the European Space Agency on the successful launch of the juice mission.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is now on its way to Jupiter.

It launched at 5.15 am Pacific time, that's 12.14 pm UTC on April 14th, atop an Ariane

5 rocket from the European Space Port in Kuru, French Guiana.

The mission will explore Jupiter and three of its largest Icy Moons, Europa, Ganymede

and Callisto.

The spacecraft will arrive in the Jovian system in 2031, so we're all going to have to

be patient, but when it gets there, it's going to spend two and a half years orbiting

Jupiter and conducting flybys of these Icy Moons before it settles into orbit around Ganymede

and spends at least nine months there.

I'll give you all the details next week when I speak to Olivier Vitas, project scientist

for the juice mission.

In other space news, SpaceX says that their Starship vehicle is ready to fly.

The new spaceship, which SpaceX hopes to someday carry astronauts to Mars, now awaits the

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