Archiving JUICE data in the European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Science Archive (PSA)

ESA’s JUpiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission is on its way to Jupiter and its icy moons, arriving in 2031. After a Jupiter Touring phase of about 3.3 years, JUICE will change its orbiting body, starting the Ganymede orbit phase in November 2034. The goal of JUICE is to characterize the giant gas planet and its three large moons – Ganymede, Europa and Callisto - using observations from a variety of remote sensing, geophysical and in-situ instruments. All science and support data acquired from the JUICE launch (April 14th, 2023) until the end of operations will be archived in ESA’s Planetary Science Archive (PSA) allowing the long-term preservation of an exceptional data set. In detail, the raw data are processed after each ground-station (downlink) pass and archived following the PDS4 standard, whilst the calibrated data are sent by the instrument teams to the PSA. Science data will be subject to a 6-month proprietary period before being made public.

The JUICE Archive is already providing auxiliary (spacecraft monitoring) data and the RADiation–hard Electron Monitor (RADEM) data to the community. Since the Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist (LEGA) in August 2024, the non-peer reviewed JUICE Monitoring Camera (JMC) images are publicly available in the PSA (https://psa.esa.int/). The other facility instrument data will also become public after successfully passing their archive peer review, i.e. the High Accuracy Accelerometer (HAA) and the Navigation Camera (NavCam). Simultaneously, iterations between the JUICE Archive Scientists and the Instrument Teams are taking place to define the data products for several JUICE science instruments. The first public release of the science data acquired during the cruise phase is planned for mid 2029.