CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers guide the container holding NASA's Juno spacecraft down the ramp of an Air Force C-17 jet at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. Juno was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver and will be transported to Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. to begin final preparations for launch. The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. Juno is sc
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers guide the container holding NASA's Juno spacecraft down the ramp of an Air Force C-17 jet at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. Juno was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver and will be transported to Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. to begin final preparations for launch. The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. Juno is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Aug. 5.
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