CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Juno spacecraft arrives at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida aboard an Air Force C-17 jet. 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 ro
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Juno spacecraft arrives at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida aboard an Air Force C-17 jet. 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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