Implementing The PRIDE Technique For The JUICE Mission At The University of Tasmania

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Jovian system, currently undergoing an eight-year cruise phase.

The Planetary Radio Interferometric and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) is one of eleven experiments contributing to the JUICE mission. PRIDE aims to conduct radio science experiments using ground-based radio telescopes, through both single dish and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations.

The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is an important contributor to PRIDE and JUICE, though its continental-wide network of radio telescopes in Australia. Over 35 PRIDE observations of JUICE were conducted during the period 2023-24, which enabled detailed analysis of space weather activity in this period, as well as the Lunar-Earth flyby campaign in August 2024.

In this paper, we describe PRIDE VLBI observations of JUICE, and the first successful results of PRIDE with the University of Tasmania infrastructure.

Oliver James White, Guifré Molera Calvés, Jasper Edwards

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Proceedings from 23rd Australian Space Research Conference. this https URL
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2509.02888 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2509.02888v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.02888
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Journal reference: Proceedings from 23rd Australian Space Research Conference, 2025, 53-64
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02888
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