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NASA Updates Coverage for Juno Mission Arrival at Jupiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
June 29, 2016
This Fourth of July, NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft will arrive
at Jupiter after an almost five-year journey. News briefings and live
coverage will be held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California, and air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.
On the evening of July 4, Juno will perform a suspenseful orbit insertion
maneuver, a 35-minute burn of its main engine, to slow the spacecraft
by about 1,212 mph (542 meters per second) so it can be captured into
the gas giant's orbit. Once in Jupiter's orbit, the spacecraft will circle
the Jovian world 37 times during 20 months, skimming to within 3,100 miles
(5,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. This is the first time a spacecraft
will orbit the poles of Jupiter, providing new answers to ongoing mysteries
about the planet's core, composition and magnetic fields.
NASA TV Events Schedule
Thursday, June 16
11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) -- Mission status briefing at NASA Headquarters
in Washington (archived at
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/88398644)
Thursday, June 30
10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) -- Mission overview news briefing at JPL
11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) -- Mission outreach briefing at JPL
Monday, July 4 -- Orbit Insertion Day
9 a.m. PDT (Noon EDT) -- Pre-orbit insertion briefing at JPL
7:30 p.m. PDT (10:30 p.m. EDT) -- Orbit insertion and NASA TV commentary
begin
10 p.m. PDT (1 a.m. EDT on July 5) -- Post-orbit insertion briefing at
JPL
To watch all of these events online, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
http://www.ustream.tv/nasa
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
Live coverage on orbit insertion day also will be available online via
Facebook Live at:
http://www.facebook.com/nasa
http://www.facebook.com/nasajpl
JPL manages the Juno mission for NASA. The mission's principal investigator
is Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The mission
is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed at the agency's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.
Learn more about the June mission, and get an up-to-date schedule of events,
at:
http://www.nasa.gov/juno
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/junotoolkit
Follow the mission on social media at:
http://www.facebook.com/NASAJuno
http://www.twitter.com/NASAJuno
For NASA TV streaming video and schedules, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
News Media Contact
DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011
ag...@jpl.nasa.gov
Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 /
202-358-1077
dwayne....@nasa.gov /
laura.l....@nasa.gov
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