Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Apr 3 2006, 09:57 PM
Post
#1
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
I thought that it was time to start a new thread devoted to the JUNO Jupiter
Orbiter mission. This New Frontiers Mission #2 seems to be a "stealth" project with little information available on the Web. In fact, the official NASA JUNO web site is quite pitiful. It contains the minimal amount of information on what seems to be an intriguing mission, in terms of both science and engineering. Does the UMSF community have information on this mission that has not been widely seen before? Another Phil |
|
|
Nov 26 2008, 06:39 PM
Post
#2
|
|
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Is there any possibility of JunoCam (image of instruments on spacecraft here) getting images of the Galilean satellites of any decent resolution?
Or would that be a bad thing due to the solar panel requirements? -Mike [EDIT: Already discussed earlier in this thread (multiple times, best response here).] -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
|
|
|
Nov 28 2008, 04:02 PM
Post
#3
|
|
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 21-September 06 Member No.: 1172 |
Is there any possibility of JunoCam getting images of the Galilean satellites of any decent resolution? Or would that be a bad thing due to the solar panel requirements? -Mike [EDIT: Already discussed earlier in this thread (multiple times, best response here).] Fortunately, JRehling is mistaken. In fact, Juno's orbit won't be fixed, it will rotate slowly as shown on the picture. Baseline mission assumes 32 orbits in all. On 12-13th orbit Juno will intersect Jupiter's equatorial plane somewhere near the Callisto orbit, on 20-21th orbit close approach to Ganymede will be possible. In case of the extended mission even Europa can be explored (if only Juno can survive in the radiation belts). I don't know whether such a "flybys" ever planned, but approaches to Galileans will be certainly much more close than those calculated by JRehling |
|
|
Nov 28 2008, 04:09 PM
Post
#4
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
|
|
|
Nov 28 2008, 04:15 PM
Post
#5
|
|
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 21-September 06 Member No.: 1172 |
|
|
|
Nov 28 2008, 06:38 PM
Post
#6
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Yes, but if we have an opportunity for encounter why not make use of it? why not to synchronize orbits? Because it's not a part of the mission goals and could potentially either take enormous amounts of delta-v or lead to unacceptable constraints on mission timing? Also, Junocam only has a requirement to last for seven orbits. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
|
|
|
Nov 28 2008, 10:09 PM
Post
#7
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1452 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Also, Junocam only has a requirement to last for seven orbits. Ouch! That's disappointing to hear. I realise though that this is a science mission, not a tourism mission... but images keep public interest alive. Requirement to last for seven orbits... I remember hearing 90 days as the designed lifetime of the MER rovers. (of course Jupiter is a different story, radiation and such X_X) -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
|
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 22nd September 2024 - 10:55 AM |
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |