Sega's famous blue blur will soon be going on one of his speediest adventures yet, leaving us all in the dust as he flies off to space.
In June 2022, the European Space Agency and Airbus will be sending a rocket to Jupiter in order to study its moons; the rocket will be transporting the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or 'JUICE', and one of the instruments found on board this spacecraft was developed by Tohoku University in Japan. Now, it just so happens that the team behind the instrument chose to have Sonic as their mascot for one of the mission's tests.
After asking Sega for permission, the team has managed to snag the following logo to accompany the equipment on its flight. The RPWI, or Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation, aims to investigate the planet's radio activity.
JUICE (and Sonic) will be heading out to Jupiter in June 2022 as mentioned above; arrival at the planet is scheduled for 2029. That really is a long trip.
Good luck, Sonic!
[source sci.tohoku.ac.jp, via kotaku.com]
Comments 31
You can't even leave this planet to escape me Jon. 😭😭😭😭
Hopefully the blue blur gets there in 10 seconds, not 10 years! Supersonic speed!
So, I'm guessing this will be the fastest moving Sonic in history. Clever thing they did there.
Mission accomplished, Sonic will now live forever!
...hopefully...
Put him in space where he can no longer make bad games
Olimar: sigh... there goes my last chance to visit another planet...
A TRUE SYMBOL OF MANKIND'S GREATNESS.
I wonder if there will be a Sonic Boom when the rocket takes off?
....I'm sorry, I had to. Exits stage left
Sonic the Spacehog
Oh man, they'll do just about ANYTHING to try and generate some more positive interest for the upcoming movie, now won't they?
Best thing (other than Mania) to come from Sonic's third Dark Age.
@ryancraddock this story is amusing. The US put the serious gold record greeting on Voyager probe in the 70's(with intenational input). While Japan puts sonic on their probe. It's so Japanese. I love it. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/assets/images/golden-record/record-diagram.jpg
I need that logo on a shirt.
As someone who likes space and Sonic, I find this pretty cool.
@Tyranexx This made me chuckle!
seems like the old wii sonic game..
I hope it’s Movie Sonic that goes to space. Leave him there where he belongs because he is an unknown creature that should not exist.
Sega will give Sonic to literally anybody who asks, it seems. At least they're being forthright with not knowing what they're doing.
Joking aside, I'm quite excited for this mission. The Galilean moons being studied are all thought to have significant subsurface oceans of water and have the potential to even harbour life within them! Closer study is most definitely warranted.
@TenguKing As one Sonic Youtube channel would have put it, "Sonic confirmed better than Mario".
@Sunsy Mission accomplished then. 😁
Hah, that's awesome.
If they don't play Sonic Boom during launch, we riot.
Cya
Razie-chan
In space, no one can hear you be the butt of so many jokes,
Imagine that an intelligent alien race discovers this and the first piece of human culture they come into contact with is Sonic the Hedgehog
@DockEllisD beat me to it! But yes, EW! Leave him and his terrible games there.
@Forgotten_Arctic Dude the only really bad things that happened to sonic are 06, boom and the movie design. Most of the games are really good, it has an amazing IDW comic series and Sonic Boom TV show isn't even close to bad. Not to mention all the nice animated series Sega gives us on youtube (Like sonic mania adventures #40MViews). There is a reason why it still has a big community and I can understand why they choose him as mascot.
So... (Egg) Rocket Zone? Will Sonic be dismatling it during launch?
I guess if they can have the names of people on NASA spacecraft, they can have Sonic on there too.
Sonic says: Gotta JUICE
In 2022 he will be Up, Over, and Goooone!
In 2029 is Juicing Time!
@aromain150 Don't make me do this....
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic R, Sonic Adventures 2, Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis, Sonic Free Riders, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Sonic Forces, and one long-running, bizarre, convoluted, canceled comic book series.
Sonic may seem good now, but trust me...pretty much his entire library of media is EXTREMELY mediocre.
@aromain150
You've obviously never heard of misery compressed onto a Game cartridge: Sonic Jam for Game.Com!
https://youtu.be/Q2Uy6gesTEo
@PBandSmelly he doesn’t make bad games. If you want to avoid that, send the developers into space instead!
@Toy_Link hahaha no I never heard of that one.
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