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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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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Aug 1 2006, 07:06 PM
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http://www.aip.org/fyi/2006/093.html
I just found an article on the Senate Appropriations commitee, dated July 17th. It has an interesting note on JUNO: "The Committee has provided the budget request of $120,000,000 for the Juno-Jupiter Polar Orbiter mission and fully expects NASA to maintain this mission and its out-year budget profile to accommodate a 2010 launch as originally envisioned." I know that the budgets shift back and forth until the fall, but if this is still in the final version, it looks like we might be back to a 2010 launch. I talked to one of the JPL engineers about JUNO at the open house in May, and he said they could launch much earlier than even 2010, but it was entirely about budget cycles at this point. |
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Sep 17 2006, 09:03 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 17-September 06 From: USA Member No.: 1151 |
...I know that the budgets shift back and forth until the fall, but if this is still in the final version, it looks like we might be back to a 2010 launch. I talked to one of the JPL engineers about JUNO at the open house in May, and he said they could launch much earlier than even 2010, but it was entirely about budget cycles at this point. Sorry, not a chance of this happening. Once upon a time, the program was happily lined up for a 2010 launch. After the slip, contracts were changed, and the whole program replanned from top to bottom. If Juno had *originally* been slated for a launch before 2010, and the funding had held, it would have been doable. At this point, though, it'd be horrendously expensive to launch in any year BUT 2011. An awful lot of analysis would have to be re-done, at the very least. Meanwhile, some number of long-lead items probably wouldn't be ready in time. Lorne -------------------- Lorne Ipsum, Chief Geek
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