Southwest Research Institute: NASA's Juno Prepares to Jump Jupiter's Shadow
October 02, 2019
October 02, 2019
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 2 -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release:
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver -- extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as its known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver o . . .
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver -- extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as its known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver o . . .