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At the end of its mission, Juno is planned to be deorbited and burned up in Jupiter's outer atmosphere [25] [26] to suppress the risk of biological contamination of its moons. [27] In October 2021, the Lucy spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 on a mission to study eight different asteroids ...
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]
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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.
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 ...
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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]
Although Juno I's launch of the Explorer 1 satellite was a huge success for the U.S. space program, only two of its remaining five flights were successful, Explorer 3 and Explorer 4, [1] giving the Juno I vehicle a mission total success ratio of 50%. [4] The Juno I vehicle was replaced by the Juno II in 1959.