Juno Makes First Jupiter Flyby

Mark Carreau August 29, 2016
Credit: Jupiter: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA’s Juno spacecraft swooped close to the cloud tops of giant Jupiter for its first orbital flyby on Aug. 27, with all instrumentation and communications channels operating in their expected fashion, mission managers said. The close pass, the first of 36 over a $1.1 billion primary mission...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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