... that give Juno its energy. Along with being the first space mission to operate a solar-powered spacecraft at Jupiter, it promises to be a first in many other respects; the first space mission to orbit an outer-planet from pole to ...
.... But even NASA hadn’t done many of the things that we were attempting: flying a solar-powered spacecraft at 800 million km from the Sun, hibernating a spacecraft for 2.5 years, navigating around a small, active comet nucleus, and landing onto its...
...every two weeks in order to investigate the moon up close as often as possible. At present, it is anticipated that the solar-powered spacecraft will be put into a long, looping orbit around its parent planet Jupiter to perform around 45 flybys of its...