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NASA’s Juno Achieves Orbit around ‘King of the Planets’

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Illustration canada goose outlet toronto factory of NASA’s Juno spacecraft firing its main engine to slow down and go into orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed Martin Canada Goose Coats On Sale built the Juno spacecraft for NASA’s Jet Propulsion cheap canada goose Laboratory. Credit: NASA/Lockheed MartinWelcome to Jupiter! NASA’s Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter at this moment!

“NASA did it again!” pronounced an elated Scott Bolton, investigator of Juno from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, to loud cheers and applause from the overflow crowd of mission scientists and media gathered at the post orbit media briefing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.

After a nearly five canada goose outlet uk year journey covering 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) across our solar system, NASA’s basketball court sized Juno orbiter achieved orbit around Jupiter, the ‘King of the Planets’ late Monday night, July 4, in a gift to all Americans on our 240th Independence Day and a gift to science to elucidate our origins.

“We are in orbit and now the fun begins, the science,” said Bolton at the briefing. “We just did the hardest thing NASA’s ever done! That’s my claim. I am so happy and proud of this team.”

And canada goose uk shop official canada goose outlet the science is all about peering far beneath the well known banded cloud tops for the first canada goose outlet parka time to investigate Jupiter’s deep interior with a suite of nine instruments, and discover the mysteries of its genesis and evolution and the implications for how we came to be.

“The deep interior of Jupiter is nearly unknown. That’s what we are trying to learn about. The origin of us.”

Solar powered Juno successfully entered a polar elliptical orbit around Jupiter after completing a must do 35 minute long firing of the main engine known as canada goose factory outlet Jupiter Orbital Insertion or JOI.

The spacecraft approached Jupiter over its north pole, affording an unprecedented perspective on the Jovian system “which looks like a mini solar system” as it flew through the giant planets intense radiation belts in ‘autopilot’ mode.

“The mission team did cheap Canada Goose great. The spacecraft did great. We are looking great. It’s a great day,” canada goose outlet reviews Bolton gushes. EDT) Monday, July 4.

Juno is only the second probe from Earth to orbit Jupiter canada goose outlet new york city and the first solar powered probe to the outer planets. The gas canada goose outlet giant is two and a half times more massive than all of the other planets combined.

“Independence Day always is something to celebrate, but today we can add to America’s birthday another reason to cheer Juno is at Jupiter,” said NASA administrator Charlie Bolden in a statement.

“And what is more American than a NASA mission going boldly where no spacecraft has gone before? With Juno, we will investigate the unknowns of Jupiter’s massive radiation belts to delve deep into not only the planet’s interior, but into how Jupiter was born and how our entire solar https://www.cheshuntteamministry.org.uk system evolved.”

Artists concept NASA’s Juno spacecraft firing its main engine to slow down and go into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016 nearly five years after launch. EDT), which had the effect canada goose uk outlet of decreasing the spacecraft’s velocity by 1,212 miles per hour (542 meters per second) and allowing Juno to be captured in orbit around Jupiter. There were no second canada goose chances.

All of the science instruments were turned off on June 30 to keep the focus on the nail biting insertion maneuver and preserve battery power, said Bolton.

“So tonight through tones Juno sang to us. And it was a song of perfection. After a 1.7 billion mile journey we hit tour burn targets within one second,” Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager from JPL, gleefully reported at the briefing.

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To accomplish the burn, the spacecraft first had to adjust it’s attitude to point the engine in the required canada goose jacket outlet direction to slow the spacecraft and then simultaneously also had the effect that the life giving solar panels were pointing away from the sun. It the only time during the entire mission at Jupiter that the solar panels were in darkness and not producing energy.

The spacecraft’s rotation rate was also spun up goose outlet canada from 2 to 5 revolutions per minute (RPM) to help stabilize it during JOI. Juno is spin Canada Goose Online stabilized to maintain pointing.

After the burn was complete, Juno was spun down and adjusted to point to the sun before it ran out of battery power.

We have to get the blood flowing through Juno’s veins, Bolton emphasized.

It is equipped with 18,698 individual solar cells over 60 square meters of surface on the solar arrays to provide energy. Juno is canada goose outlet uk sale spinning like a windmill through space with its 3 giant solar arrays. It is about 540 million miles (869 million kilometers) from Earth.

Juno mission briefing on July 5, 2016 at JPL after the successful JOI orbit insertion on July 4.

So the main engine burn, which was fully automated, was already over for some 13 minutes before the first indications of the outcome reach Earth via a series of Doppler signals and tones.

“Tonight, 540 million miles away, Juno performed a precisely choreographed dance at blazing speeds with the largest, most intense planet in our solar system,” said Guy Beutelschies, director of Interplanetary Missions at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.

“Since launch, Juno has operated exceptionally well, and the flawless orbit insertion is a testament to everyone working on Juno and their focus on getting this amazing spacecraft to its destination. NASA now has a science laboratory orbiting Jupiter.”

“The spacecraft is now pointed back at the sun and the antenna back canada goose clearance sale at Earth. The spacecraft performed well and did everything it needed to do,” he reported at the briefing.