Solar panels of the NASA Juno spacecraft completed test

Three huge solar panels provide power NASA spacecraft during its mission, Guehenno to Jupiter during this last light photons even spread in space after launch. Another plates destined Jupiter complete pre-flight test in a load astrotich facility in titusville, Florida, for processing and collapse against the spacecraft in its launch Thursday 26 May. Juno spacecraft solar will orbit Jupiter's poles 30 times to find more information about the gas giant origins, structure and atmosphere and magnetosphere.

"Complete testing and possibility of solar panels always pre-launch milestone, with Juno, can be really great because we have really large plates," said Jean chodas, project manager at Juno, "" Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, NASA "next time to include these three huge solar arrays along entire Juno will be climbing away from the Earth, about seven miles per second."

This is the first time in the history of the spacecraft could use solar energy so far out in space (Jupiter five times farther from the Sun than Earth). The sunlight away requires solar panels on partition size model you see cargo trailer on Interstate Highway. Even with everything said by the three panels, each 2.7 meters (9 feet) long, from 8.9 m (29), only generate around enough juice to power five standard lamps-about 450 Watts of electricity. If the array in optimal working the land, and will produce 12 to 14 kilowatts of energy.

In other recent events, 106-foot-long (23-meter) wide 12.5 feet (3.8 m) first stage of the launch vehicle "Atlas v United Launch Alliance, which will carry the Juno into space" slippery "arrived in Cape Canaveral Air Force station on 24 may on board a ship the second largest in the world-Volga Dnepr Antonov AN-124-100. The Atlas will be the fifth compilation, two-phase alongside the five solid rocket boosters that ring in the first phase, testing the site launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral this summer.

Start period to open a Juno on 5 August 2011, and runs until August 26. For launch on 5 August, launch window opens at 8: 39 am PDT (11: 39 am EDT) and remains open through 9: 39 am PDT (12: 39 pm EST).

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Mission's principal investigator, Juno Bolton, Scott, Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Task Juno part of "new frontier" managed the Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA in Huntsville Lockheed Martin space systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Launch and mission management is the responsibility of "launch" to service NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Jet Division of the California Institute of technology in Pasadena.

More information about Juno from website at http://www.nasa.gov/juno.

Note: you can learn more about Juno mission to Jupiter to log on to the new location. Bolton is a new site principal investigator Scott Juno alongside "radical media in New York". Bolton said "one stop shopping for anyone who wants to be entertained and informed on space science, the upcoming Juno mission." This can be found at: http://missionjuno.swri.edu site Juno.

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