The blurb says that Juno will reach Jupiter in 2016 and begin probing the planet and transmitting data. That’s all I meant.
The cat’s impatient, not me, LOL!
P.S. Five years may be nothing to you, but it could be the rest of my life. I am an old lady.
No offense intended — us astronomy types tend to think “long term.”
What the article doesn’t say is that Juno will fly by the Earth and Moon in 2013 and do observations on the way to Jupiter. Plus, there will be yearly checkouts. It won’t exactly be sitting idle for five years.