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
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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 |
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Sep 24 2009, 10:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
An article from Spaceflightnow: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0909/24juno/
I didn't realize that the launching date of MSL (Curiosity) could be affected by a late Juno launched (in her window). -------------------- |
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Sep 24 2009, 12:34 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE NASA Headquarters also asked the Juno project to open their launch period a few days earlier, giving the probe more time to get off the ground in early August. "The earlier that we launch in our launch period, the sooner it frees up that one Atlas pad to start MSL preparations," Chodas said. To accommodate the change, Juno will now follow a trajectory that arrives at Jupiter a month earlier than originally planned. It will be interesting to see the impact this has on the trajectory. I am sure Jason will be examining it to see if it creates any Io opportunities. -------------------- |
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Nov 20 2009, 04:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
It will be interesting to see the impact this has on the trajectory. I am sure Jason will be examining it to see if it creates any Io opportunities. I don't understand all this push for imaging Jupiter's moons. Juno doesn't not change its axis of rotation once it is in the science orbit. The axis will always be pointing towards the Earth/Sun for comm and power. Even if Juno were to encounter a moon, it wouldn't be able to do little more than like trying to take a picture from a car side window of a road side mailbox as you pass it. |
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Nov 20 2009, 05:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
. . . like trying to take a picture from a car side window of a road side mailbox as you pass it. I'm not sure how hard that is, but observational evidence shows that SHOOTING a mailbox from a car window as you pass by isn't that hard at all. --Greg :-) |
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