Juno arrival

[terryg]

The Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter today.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6548

There is surprisingly little coverage of the event. That is one tough spacecraft design, hope it survives Jupiter Orbit insertion.

 

[jeff_j_black]

Thanks Terry, yeah been looking forward to this. Maybe tomorrow morning will be the news dump?

 

[aerostadt]

Confirmation of the start of the orbit insertion process will come at 11:18 EDT tonight.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/...acecraft-hours-away-from-arriving-at-jupiter/

 

[aerostadt]

Should be in orbit about now.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/...acecraft-hours-away-from-arriving-at-jupiter/

 

[Marc_G]

Successful orbital insertion. Here's the story on CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/world/juno-jupiter-nasa/index.html

 

[Hobie1dog]

And there is a YouTube video that claims that satellites are all fake, and they put together an hour long production to prove their point. Of course, they also believe that the Earth is flat.

 

[terryg]

First in orbit photo:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36780756