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July 05, 2016

Juno probe succeeds in mission to orbit Jupiter: NASA
Miami (AFP) July 5, 2016
A $1.1 billion NASA spacecraft called Juno is now in orbit of the planet Jupiter on a high-stakes mission to probe the solar system's origin. Juno closed in on the largest planet in our cosmic neighborhood, five years after the unmanned solar-powered observatory launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was traveling at a speed of more than 130,000 miles per hour (209,200 kilometers per hour) when it fired its engines to slow down enough to be captured into Jupiter's orbit. ... read more

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