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—6 October 2015). Orbiting Jupiter (1st, hc ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-544-46222-9. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018; (2015). Orbiting Jupiter (eBook ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-544-46264-9.; — (December 2015). Orbiting Jupiter (1st UK ed.). Andersen Press. ISBN 978-1783443949.; Characters. Key children. Joseph Brook – 14-year-old father, served ...
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]
Astronauts on mission to "Planet X", newly discovered satellite of Jupiter. [1] [2] [3] Bramley, Capt. Weeke (F/O) Rand, Cmdr. 38 unnamed astronauts Plague from Space (1965), novel Pericles: Near Future? Crew of the first mission to land on Jupiter. The sole survivor returns to Earth carrying a deadly disease. Revised as The Jupiter Plague ...
Artist's depiction of Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter. The exploration of Jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft.It began with the arrival of Pioneer 10 into the Jovian system in 1973, and, as of 2024, has continued with eight further spacecraft missions in the vicinity of Jupiter and two more en route.
This is a list of fictional space stations that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction and science fiction. A space station (or orbital station ) is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew, which is designed to remain in space (most commonly in low Earth orbit ) for an extended period of time and for other ...
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Better data can be obtained from a spacecraft which is orbiting Jupiter, as it can encounter Ganymede at a lower speed and adjust the orbit for a closer approach. In 1995, the Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter and between 1996 and 2000 made six close flybys of Ganymede. [40] These flybys were denoted G1, G2, G7, G8, G28 and G29. [23]
Montage of planets and some moons that the two Voyager spacecraft have visited and studied. It is the only program that visited all four outer planets. A total of nine spacecraft have been launched on missions that involve visits to the outer planets; all nine missions involve encounters with Jupiter, with four spacecraft also visiting Saturn.