Edt friday to begin a five year journey to jupiter.
Satellite launched to jupiter.
First satellites from each country are included.
Somanath said we are trying to increase the capability of carrying 2 5 tonne satellites to over 10 tonne satellites in.
More recently this planet has been visited by passing spacecraft orbiters and probes.
It weighs 3 2 tonnes the heaviest so far to be indigenously launched.
The prelude to 20 months of scientific data collection to be followed by a planned deorbit.
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.
The mission juno satellite launched into clear blue skies friday beginning a five year journey to the largest planet in our solar system jupiter.
Nasa s solar powered juno spacecraft lifted off from cape canaveral air force station in florida at 9 25 a m.
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.
Not included are most earth science satellites commercial satellites or manned missions.
Juno is a nasa space probe orbiting the planet jupiter after entering orbit on july 5 2016.
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.
This timeline of artificial satellites and space probes includes unmanned spacecraft including technology demonstrators observatories lunar probes and interplanetary probes.
It then became the first spacecraft to fly past saturn and.
Launched in april 1973 the pioneer 11 spacecraft followed its sister satellite pioneer 10 through the asteroid belt and past jupiter.