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The spacecraft was designed to orbit Jupiter 37 times over the course of its mission. This was originally planned to take 20 months. [4] [5] Juno 's trajectory used a gravity assist speed boost from Earth, accomplished by an Earth flyby in October 2013, two years after its launch on August 5, 2011. [21]
These changes occurred during Juno’s orbit when it is closest to Jupiter. The third and latest flyby, which took place on Dec. 27, 2024, brought the Juno spacecraft within about 46,200 miles of ...
The first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter was the Galileo orbiter, which went into orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995. It orbited the planet for over seven years, making 35 orbits before it was destroyed during a controlled impact with Jupiter on September 21, 2003. [44]
Juno is a space probe sent to Jupiter in 2011 and it entered orbit the night of July 4, 2016. [9] Juno is part of the New Frontiers program of NASA and was also built with some contributions by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). [9] After arriving at Jupiter in July 2016, the mission went into a 53-day orbit around the planet, and collected data ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft recently flew by Jupiter, collecting crucial data -- and the best look we've gotten at the planet in a very long time.
On July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully reached Jupiter, beginning the mission to understand this mysterious planet.
Juno ' s orbit is highly elongated and takes it close to the poles (within 4,300 kilometres (2,700 mi)), but then far beyond Callisto's orbit, the most distant Galilean moon. [12] This orbital design helps the spacecraft (and its complement of scientific instruments) avoid Jupiter's radiation belts, which have a record of damaging spacecraft ...
The flyby would delay the spacecraft's arrival in Jupiter orbit from August 29 to December 10, 1988, and the expenditure of propellant would reduce the number of orbits of Jupiter from eleven to ten. This was expected to add $20 to $25 million (equivalent to $50 to $62 million in 2023) to the cost of the Galileo project.