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First Image Captured by NASAs Jupiter bound Juno; Earth – Moon Portrait

August 31, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter NASA’s solar powered Jupiter bound Juno orbiter has captured her first image – a beautiful portrait of the Earth & Moon – since the probe blasted off from the home planet. Juno lifted off 25 days ago at 12: 25 p.m. [...]

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Juno Blasts off on Science Trek to Discover Jupiter’s Genesis

August 6, 2011

NASA’s solar powered Juno spacecraft blasted off today (Aug.5)from Cape Canaveral today to begin a 2.8 billion kilometer science trek to discover the genesis of Jupiter hidden deep inside the planet’s interior. Upon arrival at Jupiter in July 2016, JUNO will fire its braking rockets and go into polar orbit and circle the planet 33 [...]

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NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as first US Asteroid Sampling Mission

May 27, 2011

NASA officials announced the selection of OSIRIS-Rex as the next US robotic planetary science mission and which will pave the way for an eventual manned mission to an asteroid. OSIRIS-Rex will be the first US mission to collect and return samples of an asteroid to Earth. OSIRIS-Rex is planned for launch to the near Earth [...]

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Solar Powered Jupiter bound JUNO lands at Kennedy Space Center for blastoff

April 17, 2011

Juno, NASA’s next big mission bound for the outer planets, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to kick off the final leg of launch preparations in anticipation of blastoff for Jupiter this summer. The huge solar-powered Juno spacecraft will skim to within 4800 kilometers (3000 miles) of the cloud tops of Jupiter to study [...]

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