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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]
The Juno mission, which has been orbiting and observing Jupiter and its moons since July 2016, made incredibly close flybys of Io in December 2023 and February. The spacecraft zipped within 930 ...
Juno. Mission: studying Jupiter from polar orbit. Originally intended to de-orbit into the Jovian atmosphere after 2021, now operating until 2025. Launched: 5 August 2011; Destination: Jupiter; Arrival: 4 July 2016; Institution: NASA; New Horizons. Mission: the first spacecraft to study Pluto up close, and ultimately the Kuiper Belt. It was the ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016. ... The orbiter is now prepared to get fueled up and head to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Evans ...
The Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024, with In Praise of Mystery engraved on the spacecraft. Nasa invites public to sign ‘message in a bottle’ that will fly to Jupiter’s ...
Juno Radiation Vault (the box being lowered onto the partially constructed spacecraft) in the process of being installed on Juno, 2010 Juno Radiation Vault is shown attached, but with the top open and some of the electronics boxes inside the vault can be seen The cube shaped JRV can be seen in between the un-wrapped main dish and the larger hexagonal main spacecraft body.
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles (200 kilometers). Still in action around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has added to Europa’s photo album. Arriving at Jupiter a year after Clipper will be the European Space Agency’s Juice spacecraft, launched last year.
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 ...