NASA Will Host 150 People for Tweetup at Launch of Jupiter-Bound Mission
Posted by brandoniswrite on June 29, 2011
NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Aug. 4-5 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Tweetup is expected to culminate in the launch of the Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket. The launch window opens at 8:39 a.m. PDT (11:39 a.m. EDT) on [...]
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NASA’s Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives in Florida
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 4, 2011
NASA‘s Juno spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch this summer. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, to the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., today. The solar-powered Juno spacecraft will orbit Jupiter’s poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant’s origins, [...]
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