Jupiter Probe Undergoes Tests

By Michael Mecham.

SAN FRANCISCO — Lockheed Martin is in the last week of thermal vacuum tests before shipping Juno, NASA’s solar-powered Jupiter spacecraft, to Cape Canaveral in early April for its scheduled Aug. 5 liftoff.

Launch will be on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551. Following Juno’s arrival at Jupiter in 2016, it will orbit the gas giant’s poles 33 times to investigate the planet’s ...

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