The JMC and NAVCAM cameras on the ESA JUICE spacecraft

Launched in April 2023, the JUICE spacecraft is currently on its journey to Jupiter, with a scheduled arrival in 2031. During the Cruise phase, the scientific payload is periodically switched-on during checkouts and planetary flybys. In addition to the payload, two cameras are part of the so-called “facility instruments” onboard the spacecraft: the JUICE Monitoring Camera (JMC) and the JUICE Navigation Camera (NAVCAM). The JMC very wide angle cameras (JMC1 and JMC2) acquire colour images using a RGYB custom Colour Filter Array (CFA). The JMC is designed to monitor the spacecraft appendices deployment and the arrival at Jupiter. The NAVCAM narrower angle cameras (NAVCAM1 and NAVCAM2) acquire panchromatic images and are designed to support the navigation of the spacecraft. The two instruments have been acquiring images in-flight since 2023, including during the Near-Earth Commissioning Phase (NECP, 2023) and the Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist (LEGA, 2024) featuring the Earth and the Moon. Those images are processed from the telemetry data received on ground into PDS4 raw data products archived in the Planetary Science Archive (PSA) by the JUICE Science Operations Centre (SOC). Currently in development, we will present the status of the data products beyond the raw data processing level.