Juno spacecraft undergoes weight and balance testing at Astrotech payload processing facility, Titusville, Fla. June 16, 2011.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu .
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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Target | Jupiter | |
System | ||
Target Type | Planet | |
Mission | Juno | |
Instrument Host | Juno | |
Host Type | Orbiter | |
Instrument | ||
Detector | ||
Extra Keywords | Color | |
Acquisition Date | ||
Release Date | 2011-06-24 | |
Date in Caption | 2011-06-16 | |
Image Credit | NASA | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14286 | |
Identifier | PIA14286 |