Welcome to Jupiter – NASA Successfully Gets Juno In Jupiter’s Orbit
NASA launched the giant Juno spacecraft from Earth back in August of 2011. Today the Juno spacecraft achieved the most intense nail biting chapter of its journey. With a 49 minute communications delay, which means Juno had to navigate at just the right speed and distance on its own, they had to rely solely on the code that was written for the spacecraft to perform its actions. Now NASA has confirmed and live streamed that Juno is officially in Jupiter’s orbit.
Never in history has a spacecraft ever entered into such a high radioactive environment let alone been this close to our Solar System’s biggest planet.
If you’re a frequent visitor of SocialUnderground, then you know our coverage of this historic event has been building over the last month.
Juno will now officially start its mission. For the next 20 months Juno will orbit Jupiter 37 times relaying more information about the giant planet then we’ve ever received. The first ever closeups of Jupiter should start arriving soon and we’ll be sure to have them for you.
Feature Image: NASA.gov