On This Day in Space! Aug. 5, 2011: NASA's Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter
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On this day in space! Aug. 5, 2011: NASA's Juno spacecraft launches to Jupiter
On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.The robotic spacecraft lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from what is now Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and spent the next five years making the 1.74-billion-mile trek to Jupiter.Next Stop, Jupiter! Launch Photos of NASA's Juno MissionSince it arrived in Jupiter's orbit in 2016, the Juno spacecraft has taken the m…
A probe lost for seventeen years, sleeping thrusters, a signal that no one was watching: this is the starting point of an extraordinary space adventure. In 2014, a handful of enthusiasts, armed with their curiosity and a crowdfunding site, managed to do what the US Space Agency had ordered [...] More
NASA has just passed one of the most delicate tests of the entire Europa Clipper mission. The REASON radar, charged with looking under the icy crust of one of Jupiter's most intriguing moons, worked exactly as expected during a Mars overflight, and the data has already been confirmed by the engineers of the project. It is not a scientific finding about Europe yet, but it is a crucial news: it means that, when the probe reaches its destination, i…
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