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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]
JIRAM JIRAM data on Jupiter's southern lights, August 2016 Jovian "Hotspot" in visible (top) and near infrared (bottom) from a previous mission. Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) is an instrument on the Juno spacecraft in orbit of the planet Jupiter. It is an image spectrometer and was contributed by Italy. [1]
EBox stands for Electronics Box. [2] JADE-E is for detecting electrons from 0.1 to 100 keV, and there are three JADE-E sensors on Juno. [2] JADE-I is for detecting ions from 5 eV to 50 keV. [2] It is designed to return data in situ on Jupiter's auroral region and magnetospheric plasmas, by observing electrons and ions in this region. [2]
JunoCam successfully returned detailed images of Ganymede after Juno's flyby on June 7, 2021, [6] with further opportunities including planned flybys of Europa on September 29, 2022, and two of Io scheduled for December 30, 2023 and February 3, 2024. These flybys will also reduce Juno's orbital period to 33 days. [7]
The Juno Radiation Vault is roughly a cube, with walls made of 1 cm thick (1/3 of an inch) titanium metal, and each side having an area of about a square meter (10 square feet). [2] The vault weighs about 200 kg (500 lbs). [3] Inside the vault are the main command and data handling and power control boxes, along with 20 other electronic boxes. [2]
On 15 August 1959, the next Juno II was flown, carrying the Beacon satellite. While first-stage performance was nominal, the upper stages malfunctioned. [6] [7] [10] One intended experiment on this mission was the ejection of four flares stowed in the interstage section, which would be tracked and photographed during the launch. However, things ...
Juno KaTS sends tone signal at 35 GHz (X-Band) Juno launched in 2011 and arrived at Jupiter orbit in July 2016. [7] The GS was planned out to be used on orbits 4, orbit 9, and orbits 10 through 32. [8] When GS operates it must point its antenna at Earth, and is not operated simultaneously with the Microwave Radiometer instrument on Juno. [8]
The Juno mission, of which Scott Bolton is the principal investigator.. Bolton is the principal investigator for Juno, a mission launched in 2011 to study Jupiter's origin, atmosphere, magnetosphere and interior structure, [2] part of NASA's New Frontiers program to explore the outer planets of the solar system. [3]