{"id":19323,"date":"2016-07-05T01:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-juno-probe-goes-into-orbit-at-jupiter-after-nail-biting-maneuver\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T01:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:55:21","slug":"nasas-juno-probe-goes-into-orbit-at-jupiter-after-nail-biting-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-juno-probe-goes-into-orbit-at-jupiter-after-nail-biting-maneuver\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Juno probe goes into orbit at Jupiter after nail-biting maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io show up in the last image taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft before all the instruments were powered down in preparation for orbital insertion. The June 29 picture was taken from a distance of 3.3 million miles from Jupiter. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA\u2019s farthest-out solar-powered probe, the Juno spacecraft, successfully entered orbit around Jupiter tonight after a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile cruise through interplanetary space \u2013 and many hours\u2019 worth of high tension back on Earth.<\/p>\n

Mission managers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California had to program Juno\u2019s computer in advance to execute a 35-minute rocket engine firing that put the probe in the correct orbit. If anything went wrong, Juno could have zoomed right past Jupiter, and flight controllers couldn\u2019t have done anything about it.<\/p>\n

It took 48 minutes for signals to travel from the spacecraft to Earth at the speed of light, which meant no one on Earth knew that the engine burn had even started until 13 minutes after it was over. Mission managers said the engine burn was just 1 second off what was planned.<\/p>\n