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Which spacecraft has become the First Solar-powered mission to reach the planet Jupitar?

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Which spacecraft has become the First Solar-powered mission to reach the planet Jupitar?
posted Jul 5, 2016 by Nway Nadar

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Juno Spacecraft
The Juno spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V-551 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2011, and will reach Jupiter in July 2016. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 32 times, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops, for approximately one year.

Juno uses a spinning solar-powered spacecraft in a highly elliptical polar orbit that avoids most of Jupiter's high radiation regions. The designs of the individual instruments are straightforward and the mission does not require the development of any new technologies.

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answer Jul 6, 2016 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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