BoomerD
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http://spaceflight101.com/juno/juno-mission-trajectory-design/
After a nearly 5 year voyage, the Juno spacecraft entered a long orbit around Jupiter on Monday evening.
Pretty cool stuff for us old space junkies, many of us remember the very first Mercury launch...or the even earlier Sputnik launch by the then USSR.
It takes a radio signal about 33 minutes each way, 33 minutes Earth to Jupiter, then 33 minutes back, so everything that they want the craft to do has to be programmed and sent well in advance...and everything that COULD happen, happens a long time before they ever know about it.
I REALLY hope this works out like they have it planned...but there are SOOOOOOO many things that could go wrong.
BoomerD will keep his fingers crossed.
After a nearly 5 year voyage, the Juno spacecraft entered a long orbit around Jupiter on Monday evening.
Pretty cool stuff for us old space junkies, many of us remember the very first Mercury launch...or the even earlier Sputnik launch by the then USSR.
It takes a radio signal about 33 minutes each way, 33 minutes Earth to Jupiter, then 33 minutes back, so everything that they want the craft to do has to be programmed and sent well in advance...and everything that COULD happen, happens a long time before they ever know about it.
I REALLY hope this works out like they have it planned...but there are SOOOOOOO many things that could go wrong.
BoomerD will keep his fingers crossed.