Live coverage: Juno spacecraft hours away from arriving at Jupiter

SpaceFlightNow.com ^ | 4JUL2016 | Stephen Clark

[Jack Hydrazine]

18:19
Juno should now be starting a slow maneuver from its power-generating sun-pointing attitude toward the orientation required for tonight's Jupiter Orbit Insertion burn. This slow precession maneuver should take about 21 minutes, then Juno will hold its position before starting a faster precession to the burn attitude.

17:56 Last pre-JOI image from JunoCam




Here is the official caption from NASA:

"This is the final view taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft before Juno's instruments were powered down in preparation for orbit insertion. Juno obtained this color view on June 29, 2016, at a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter.

The spacecraft is approaching over Jupiter's north pole, providing an unprecedented perspective on the Jupiter system, including its four large moons."

JunoCam and Juno's other science instruments have been turned off for today's arrival maneuver.

Live video coverage of the event begins at 7:30pm PDT/10:30pm EDT which can be viewed at the link above or the links below. Orbital insertion burn begins at 8:18pm PDT/11:18pm EDT.

NASA JUNO: Mission To Jupiter Real Time Simulation and live coverage via YouTube.

Second link to live coverage via LiveStream.

[Jack Hydrazine]

NASA Juno mission page.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html

[Jack Hydrazine]

Another live coverage link.
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

[Jack Hydrazine]

Twitter feeds.
https://twitter.com/search?q=juno+mission+live+coverage&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

[henkster]

I just tried opening my NASA app and it won’t open. Probably too much traffic.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Eyes on Juno
https://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-juno.html

After a journey of more than 5 years, the Juno spacecraft is ready for its detailed look at Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.

Using Eyes on the Solar System and simulated data from the Juno flight team you can ride on board the spacecraft using “Eyes on Juno” on your Mac or PC.

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.

[Joe 6-pack]

My God, it’s full of stars!

[PROCON]

Juno spacecraft hours away from arriving at Jupiter

Riigghhttt, and I bet you think we really landed on the moon too. </tinfoilhat>

[Resettozero]

Thank you for posting this.

R2z

[mojo114]

We are watching, thanks.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s working for me!

[Talisker]

I just tried opening my NASA app and it won’t open. Probably too much traffic.

I managed to get on. Here's a snapshot of the latest photo from Juno:

[henkster]

Just tried again; still won’t load. Maybe I should tell them I’m Muslim and they’ll reach out to me.

[JoeProBono]

[Jack Hydrazine]

How long does it take for radio or light waves to travel from Earth to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto?
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26700/how-long-does-it-take-for-radio-or-light-waves-to-travel-from-earth-to-jupiter

Planet MaxAU MinAU MaxTime(in minutes) MinTime(in minutes)
Mercury 1.39 0.61 11.56 5.07
Venus 1.72 0.28 14.30 2.33
Mars 2.52 0.52 20.96 4.32
Jupiter 6.20 4.20 51.56 34.93
Saturn 10.54 8.54 87.66 71.02
Uranus 20.22 18.22 168.16 151.53
Neptune 31.06 29.06 258.32 241.68

To see where Jupiter is in relation to the Earth in the solar system.
http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

[skr]

Thank you for the link

[SaveFerris]

Regarding Io, attempt no landing there.

[Jack Hydrazine]

[henkster]

When did the Bureau of Motor Vehicles open a branch office on Jupiter?

[dragnet2]

Fantastic stuff. Go Juno!