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Juno Solar Panels

author: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Novapix

reference: e-son14-02010

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 16 cm

Technicians at Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. stow solar array #2 against the body of NASA's Juno spacecraft. Launching from Earth in 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit. When Juno arrives at Jupiter in 2016, it will be farther from the sun than any previous solar powered mission. The choice of solar power for Juno necessitates very large solar arrays with dimensions of 2.65 meters wide by 8.9 meters long (about 9 feet wide by 29 feet long). Once in orbit at the giant planet, the three arrays will provide about 450 watts of electricity for Juno.

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2011 - HUMAN - JUNO - JUPITER - LABORATORY - PERSON - PLANET - PREPARATION - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -