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NASA’s Juno spacecraft refines its path to Jupiter

Submit on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 22:56

NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path with the mission’s first trajectory correction manoeuvre. The manoeuvre took place on 1 February. It is the first of a dozen planned rocket firings that, over the next five years, will keep Juno on course for its rendezvous with Jupiter.Other Posts:New Dawn’s C-band reflector still stuckRussian Proton launches Malaysian telecommunication satelliteEADS (Astrium) results 2006GIOVE-B pre-launch details (II)Galileo clears final legal hurdleDnepr crashes after lift-offThrane & Thrane Sells ESLEuropean S-band licenses to be awarded to two bidders–report

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