Juno’s close-pass was at a height of 4,200 kilometers above the gas planet’s surface, traveling at 208,000 kilometers per hour Juno spacecraft was launched on August 5, 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Florida and entered Jupiter’s orbit in 2016 NASA’s Juno mission has successfully executed its closest approach to Jupiter at 13:44 UTC on Saturday. The close pass was at a height of 4,200 kilometers above the gas planet’s surface – the... 

Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4 and is currently executing the first of two long orbits. NEW YORK: Five years after departing from Earth, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is all set to reach the farthest point in its orbit of Jupiter on Sunday to “get the science” of the giant planet with a mass two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in our solar system combined. Known as “apojove“, the orbit is nearly 8.1 million...