NASA's Juno probe successfully enters Jupiters orbit, a moment that engineers said was 'make or break' for the mission. PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Juno spacecraft safely entered Jupiter’s orbit early Tuesday after completing a five-year journey across 1.8 billion miles of deep space. The spacecraft began firing its main engines at 8:18 pm local time Monday to slow itself down so it could be captured by Jupiter’s gravity. Thirty-five minutes later, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. — Mission Control — received confirmation: Juno's attempt to throw itself into orbit had been successful. "All stations on Juno co-ord, we have the tone for burn cut-off on Delta B," Juno Mission Control announced, followed by: "Roger Juno, welcome to Jupiter." The $1.1 billion Juno will now use its sensors to explore Jupiter for clues about how our solar system formed billio...
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