Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Mar 26 2011, 02:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
There were 2 very well done articles on Juno in last week's Aviation Week
this is the only one of the two I found on their website: Juno Is Solar Marvel Bound for Jupiter by the way, you can read them both by searching Aviation Week on www.zinio.com |
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Mar 28 2011, 06:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Juno's solar arrays are already at Cape Canaveral, undergoing tests. Juno itself should be arriving in Florida sometime next month, I believe
-------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Apr 8 2011, 11:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Follow Juno's high-flying journey to Cape Canaveral Today, Friday 04/08/11
"Ever wonder what it's like to transport delicate billion-dollar space equipment across the country? It takes precision, care and a little heavy-lifting from the Air Force. NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly to Florida on a C-17 Globemaster today to start preparing for launch to Jupiter in August, and Spaceflight Now is going along for the ride." http://spaceflightnow.com/juno/status.html blatant political comment removed - admin Craig |
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Apr 8 2011, 11:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2081 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
They're in motion, according to the status.
Looks like they'll make it just in time! |
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Apr 9 2011, 02:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives in Florida
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?rele...elease_2011-113 -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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May 5 2011, 01:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
-------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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May 17 2011, 12:26 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
The Junocam has been delivered:
http://www.msss.com/news/index.php?id=24 And there are some interesting tidbits there, for instance QUOTE ...is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen... and QUOTE Junocam uses precision bandpass filters produced by Barr Associates of Westford, Massachusetts, including a red channel that sees into the near infrared to penetrate more deeply into the jovian atmosphere, and a fourth narrowband near-IR channel to map the abundance of methane I was starting to fear that the best Voyager mosaics of the Great Red Spot (GRS) were going to remain the best (or at least among the very best) views of the GRS for the next 20-25 years or more but fortunately it now at least seems possible I was wrong. There are lots of thing I'd love to see at significantly higher resolution than Voyager obtained (for example hi-res time lapse coverage of selected features like the GRS; cloud shadows and vertical 'relief' etc. that is visible in the highest resolution Voyager images) but I don't know if this qualifies as something that is interesting enough from a scientific point of view. |
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May 17 2011, 05:18 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I'm glad they finally said this publicly:
QUOTE Its wide-angle lens, designed and built by Rockwell-Collins Optronics of Carlsbad, California, produces sharp, low-distortion images that rival the best MSSS cameras have ever taken. MSSS people seem just giddy about the quality of the images they're getting from this camera. And not only that: the compression algorithms they're using result in so little a reduction in image quality that probably only Bjorn and Gordan will notice the compression artifacts I'm still not quite sure what to expect from this mission in terms of images, but I'm quite confident it'll be much more spectacular than is officially promised. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jun 29 2011, 12:04 AM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2250 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Planetary Radio had an interview with Scott Bolton yesterday. One of the highlights: The images will be released to the web in raw form as soon as they are received. The best resolution is going to be 3 km/pixel.
If I understand correctly Juno will mainly be doing polar imaging (or the resolution is optimal there - I'm not sure). It would be interesting to know more about this and especially about possible imaging of the latitudes about 20 degrees south of the equator . |
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Jun 29 2011, 04:51 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
I sent a thank you note to the team via http://missionjuno.swri.edu/
Couldn't hurt if more did the same! Just FYI, there is some kind of character limit in their "contact us" window, so be succinct. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Jul 8 2011, 03:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
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Jul 26 2011, 06:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
Amazing how low is interest in the Juno mission. I know that Juno is not Cassini, but nevertheless it is mission to Jupiter.
Here is a series of really beautiful images from KSC (including encapsulation). http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=230 Launch window opens Aug. 5 (only 9 days, 20 hours from now). -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jul 26 2011, 07:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Amazing how low is interest in the Juno mission. Possibly because it's only designed to last 33 months at Jupiter...as opposed to 7 years and counting for Cassini at Saturn (That, and there are only so many interesting images the Junocam can take of Jupiter's poles) -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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Jul 26 2011, 07:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2081 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
The destination is still so far away, its like wondering why there's not much fuss about Rosetta or New Horizons yet.
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Jul 26 2011, 07:34 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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