Juno Will Get No Closer To Jupiter Due To Engine Troubles
Juno Will Get No Closer To Jupiter Due To Engine Troubles On July 4th, 2016, the Juno mission established orbit around Jupiter, becoming the second spacecraft in history to do so (after the Galileo probe). Since then, the probe has been in a regular 53.4-day orbit (known as perijove), moving between the poles to avoid the worst of its radiation belts. Originally, Juno’s mission scientists had been hoping to reduce its orbit to a 14-day cycle so the probe could make more passes to gather more data. To do this, Juno was scheduled for an engine burn on Oct. 19th, 2016, during its second perijovianRead More →