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Has NASA's Juno spacecraft reached the end of its mission orbiting Jupiter?

After nearly 10 years, NASA’s Jupiter explorer Juno is likely no longer operating, with its latest mission extension ending during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. The Juno spacecraft launched ...
ExtremeTech

NASA's Juno will stay in its 53-day orbit around Jupiter after engine troubles

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Forbes

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Exposes Io As A Hellishly Active Jupiter Moon

Io, one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, as seen by the Galileo probe, circa 1997. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) New data from NASA’s $1.2 billion Juno spacecraft — now ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit

PASADENA, Calif. — The best celebration this Independence Day wasn’t around a barbecue or fireworks show, but in a dark room filled with NASA engineers. After hours of anticipation, team members broke ...
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NASA’s Juno Could Catch Mysterious Interstellar Comet in Daring 2026 Flyby

An aging spacecraft more than a decade into its mission may soon undertake one of the most ambitious maneuvers in modern space exploration. According to a detailed study published on arXiv, a team of ...
Gizmodo

Astronomers Detect Entirely New Type of Plasma Wave Above Jupiter’s North Pole

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Since entering ...
Phys.org

How NASA saved a camera from 370 million miles away

The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the ...