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Juno spacecraft ready for tomorrow's launch to Jupiter

Washington, USA - With on board JIRAM and KaT of Italian space agency ASI

NASA unveils on its website that everything's ready for the start of its first mission after the end of "Space Shuttle" program. It's in fact scheduled for tomorrow Juno's lift-off to Jupiter. It will be launched at 11:34 am from complex number 41 of Air Force Station of Cape Canaveral in Florida on an Atlas V 551 rocket carrier, carrying 10 instruments including JIRAM and KaT of ASI, Italian space...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1132622
Rome, Italy, 08/05/2011 10:31
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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