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Juno in launch configuration. Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter.It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC, as part of the New Frontiers program. [6]
Solar System space probes operational as of November 2024. This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points (for these, see List of objects at Lagrangian points). A craft is deemed "active" if it is still able to ...
also flew by various of Jupiter's moons; intentionally flown into Jupiter at end of mission; first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter; first spacecraft to flyby an asteroid 1989-084B Galileo Probe: NASA: 7 December 1995 atmospheric probe success first probe to enter Jupiter's atmosphere 1989-084E: Cassini: NASA/ ESA/ ASI: December 2000 flyby success
The Galileo Probe had COSPAR ID 1989-084E while the orbiter had id 1989-084B. [70] Names for the spacecraft include Galileo Probe or Jupiter Entry Probe abbreviated JEP. [71] The related COSPAR IDs of the Galileo mission were: [72] 1989-084A STS 34; 1989-084B Galileo; 1989-084C IUS (Orbus 21) 1989-084D IUS (Orbus 6E) 1989-084E Galileo Probe
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...
Intentionally deorbited and incinerated in Jupiter's atmosphere 21 September 2003 First Jupiter orbiter Juno: USA 4 July 2016 Active JUICE: ESA July 2031 (planned) en route mission to study Jupiter's three icy moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, eventually orbiting Ganymede as the first spacecraft to orbit a satellite of another planet. Europa ...
Just over a year after it was launched, the European Space agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is returning towards Earth on Aug. 19-20 and will use the braking effect of its gravity to ...
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids. It is slated to visit two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans – asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. [4] [5] All target encounters will be flyby encounters. [6]