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Launch of the Juno Spacecraft (2011)

This is the description for the launch of the Juno Spacecraft in 2011. The Juno Spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on August 5, 2011, aboard an Atlas V rocket. The mission of the Juno Spacecraft is to study the planet Jupiter and its atmosphere,

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Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC, as part of the New Frontiers program. Juno entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5, 2016, UTC, to begin a scientific investigation of the planet. After completing its mission, Juno was originally planned to be intentionally deorbited into Jupiter's atmosphere, but has since been approved to continue orbiting until contact is lost with the spacecraft. It will continue to explore Jupiter to study Jovian rings and inner moons area which is not well explored; this phase will also include close flybys of the moons Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea, and Metis.

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