Pioneer 10 and 11 and voyager 1 and 2 were the first to fly by jupiter in the 1970s and since then we ve sent galileo to orbit the gas.
Satellite launched to jupiter.
The prelude to 20 months of scientific data collection to be followed by a planned deorbit.
Nasa s solar powered juno spacecraft lifted off from cape canaveral air force station in florida at 9 25 a m.
Nasa launched the 1 1 billion satellite from cape canaveral florida at 12 25 p m after almost a decade of building and testing the spacecraft.
It weighs 3 2 tonnes the heaviest so far to be indigenously launched.
This timeline of artificial satellites and space probes includes unmanned spacecraft including technology demonstrators observatories lunar probes and interplanetary probes.
Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of jupiter.
Not included are most earth science satellites commercial satellites or manned missions.
More recently this planet has been visited by passing spacecraft orbiters and probes.
Introduction while jupiter has been known since ancient times the first detailed observations of this planet were made by galileo galilei in 1610 with a small telescope.
Juno is a nasa space probe orbiting the planet jupiter after entering orbit on july 5 2016.
After a five year journey the craft entered orbit of jupiter on 5 july 2016 utc for a multi year mission to peer into jupiter s atmosphere and provide global scientific coverage of the planet.
It then became the first spacecraft to fly past saturn and.
First satellites from each country are included.
Edt friday to begin a five year journey to jupiter.
Launched in april 1973 the pioneer 11 spacecraft followed its sister satellite pioneer 10 through the asteroid belt and past jupiter.