A Juno Mission Update from the Critical Design Phase
- Paper number
IAC-09.A3.6.5
- Author
Mr. Steve Matousek, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
- Year
2009
- Abstract
The second NASA New Frontiers mission, Juno will launch to Jupiter in August, 2011. Arriving in 2016 for a one year orbital mission, Juno peers down through Jupiter’s clouds revealing fundamental processes of the early evolution of our solar system. The Juno mission features a solar powered, spinning spacecraft in an innovative, highly elliptical polar orbit that avoids Jupiter’s highest radiation regions. This paper provides a mission update from the critical design phase. Detailed are the operations concept, spacecraft, payload, and ground system designs. Changes from the preliminary design phase with rationale are given.
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