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This video is no longer available. This video is a condensed collection of photos from the Juno NASA Tweetup last week. Originally I had...
Juno hauling its solar-powered ass away from Earth around an hour and a half post-launch at 1:53 PM EDT, August 5th, 2011. Juno earlier this...
This is where Juno was at 4:10 PM EDT today. Screenshot by me. A while back Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with the California...
Juno’s Atlas V is on top of this plume, August 5th, 2011. At this time, the Atlas V was traveling downrange towards its desired interplanetary...
Woot! I am here y’allz. Right next to the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC in the Tweetup tent. I can’t quite believe it myself. I...
I am here again in Titusville after a semi-arduous but necessary and money-saving bus trip. Excited and ready for fun…of course, watch this space over...
Photo from NASA Tweetup at Twitter. Also, Emily C. launches tomorrow morning. On a bus. To Florida’s Space Coast. See you there! Emily Carney is...
What I’ll be doing in a couple of days, Stanley Kubrick edition. Hey space peeps. How y’all doing? I am doing quite well. In less...
Presented without comment. Emily Carney is a writer, space enthusiast, and creator of the This Space Available space blog, published since 2010. In January 2019,...
Juno is a solar-powered space probe, unlike its Pioneer and Voyager ancestors which were powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Scaled image provided by...
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