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Live coverage of Juno's Jupiter Orbit Insertion [video]

165 points| hybrid11 | 9 years ago |nasa.gov

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msm23|9 years ago

You can view a live simulation using a Mac/PC app downloadable from:

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/eyes-on-juno.html

From the description on the page: In this interactive visualization, you can ride along with the Juno spacecraft in real-time at any time during the entire mission. For example, watch the arrival at Jupiter on the 4th of July, 2016, or see Juno use Earth’s gravity as a slingshot to pick up speed, or just learn about the science of Jupiter and about the spacecraft itself. You can even turn on and off the magnetic field, aurorae, and the radiation belt, all in 3D! All of this and more is waiting to be explored.

relyks|9 years ago

I previously submitted this earlier today. Here's the link for YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmHHpAsMVw It's been really great being able to stream in HD on my Chromecast :)

finnn|9 years ago

Thanks! I really didn't want to go enable flash

curiousgal|9 years ago

This cracks me up! Jupiter's moons were named after Jupiter's mistresses. Juno was his wife..

ragazzina|9 years ago

"The god Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief, but his wife, the goddess Juno, was able to peer through the clouds and see Jupiter's true nature."

Benjamin_Dobell|9 years ago

> Juno was his wife..

Was...? Now that's some dedicated faith, still practising Ancient Roman religions!

emersonrsantos|9 years ago

And it began successfully its first orbit. Now that it has completed its 1.8-billion-mile journey, the solar-powered craft is set to cruise around Jupiter 37 times over a period of 20 months. Juno will collect information about the planet’s magnetic field, composition and internal structure.

ufmace|9 years ago

Cool!

I did note that everybody in their control room is wearing identical grey polos... guess somebody really doesn't want a repeat of the shirt incident.

natep|9 years ago

It's been a traditional at JPL (and other NASA centers) to wear matching polos for quite some time now, at least years, before the Rosetta landing. Not saying that NASA is better than ESA as far as women or PR goes, but this wasn't a reactionary move.

Mao_Zedang|9 years ago

Shirt diversity is at an all time low.

marak830|9 years ago

Arg I hate being at work at this time. My lunch breaks about to finish, so at least I can catch up in a few hours.

The burn has started according to the tweets though! Good luck Juno and NASA team!

huherto|9 years ago

I had no idea. I was listening to this on the radio this morning. I was not sure if they were narrating a science fiction work like a movie or if it was real news.

jryle70|9 years ago

Stupid question in general. Given how long it takes for a spacecraft's signal to reach earth, I suppose we can use the time difference to calculate the distance from a spacecraft such as New Horizon to earth. But how do we know its exact location at any given moment? What are the equivalence of GPS and cell towers in space?

travelton|9 years ago

Don't have all the answers, but last night, on the webcast, they were explaining that the spacecraft uses the stars for navigation [1].

In addition, instead of wasting valuable power for radio transmission, they send a simple tone back to Earth [2]. With that, they can determine if various events were successful (tones are sent at specific event times), also calculate the changes in speed/rotation using doppler shifts from the "tones" [3] (validating the engine fired, current spin, etc)

[1] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/bsf13-1.php

[2] https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/30/juno-switched-to-autop...

[3] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/bsf6-4.php

saboot|9 years ago

There is an optical camera on board, did it send any close up jupiter pictures this first go-around?

gizmo686|9 years ago

According to the press conference, all non essential instruments were turned off 5 days ago.

wrongc0ntinent|9 years ago

NASA is definitely hitting its stride on the PR side, considering the date. Good for them.

Rooster61|9 years ago

I didn't realize Juno would have such a large capture orbit. 54 days and change to complete one pass. Makes sense though. They way they are skirting the Ionian radiation torus is pretty slick.

nikdaheratik|9 years ago

Remember that they are choosing an orbit that allows Juno to keep facing the sun as well.

stuff4ben|9 years ago

Watched The Martian in the morning and then closed off the day watching NASA insert a spacecraft into Jupiter orbit. I'm on a NASA/JPL high right now!

blt|9 years ago

Thought all these posts were about classic Roland polyphonic synthesizers for a second...