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Jupiter Probe Launch 6 August 2011
BBC News A $1.1bn (£0.7bn) unmanned space mission has launched from Florida on a journey to the planet Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft will cruise beyond Mars to put itself in orbit around the gas giant in 2016. It is the first solar-powered mission to venture this far from the Sun.The mission launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday at 12:25 local time (16:25 GMT; 17:25 BST), after a brief delay caused by a helium leak. There were concerns with the helium charging system on the rocket's Centaur upper stage, but a small leak on the "ground side" of the rocket was found to be the culprit.
"Today, with the launch of the Juno spacecraft, NASA began a journey to yet another new frontier," said Nasa's administrator Charles Bolden. "The future of exploration includes cutting-edge science like this to help us better understand our Solar System and an ever-increasing array of challenging destinations." At Jupiter, where the intensity of sunlight is only 1/25th of that at Earth, space missions would normally resort to a plutonium battery.But Juno will instead travel with three wings coated with 18,000 solar cells. "As a solar-panelled mission, we have to keep those solar panels facing the Sun and we never go into Jupiter's shadow," the mission's chief scientist Scott Bolton told BBC News."Those are things we can do and still accomplish our science; it doesn't hurt us. But it would have been easier if we could have pointed just any way we wanted. We've had to develop a strategy, and in fact we've advanced solar cell technology in doing so."
It is interesting that we are talking about a probe to Jupiter and here it is at 9-21' degrees Taurus making an almost exact square to Venus (conjunct the Sun) in Leo, denoting an expansive and expensive project. It is forming a 'wedge' with Pluto and the Moon. But that is not all. There are a number of sextile aspects in this chart, denoting intelligence and potential for gathering information. Starting with Mars in the 9th House of long-distance journeys, sextile Mercury, the ruler of the 9th house, sextile the Moon, the ruler of the M/C, sextile Pluto, which is sextile Neptune and Chiron sextile Jupiter. Jupiter can't quite make the connection to Mars, it is out of orb, otherwise it would have made a Grand Sextile configuration. As it is, there are a number of challenging aspects too. For instance, the t-square of Pluto -Mars Uranus. Uranus is the apex planet here and can indicate space travel. Its trine aspect to the Venus/Sun conjunction allows the energy of the t-square to find a positive way out and will contribute towards making this journey a success. The trine from Jupiter to Pluto (trine Mercury in 11th house of space travel) more or less says it all: Moving beyond the Earth's boundaries in order to find essential meaning behind the mysteries of the universe. L.S.
Juno's mission is to probe the secrets of the Solar System by explaining the origin and evolution of its biggest planet. This should yield some remarkable new insights into the coloured bands that wrap around the planet, and a new perspective on the famous Great Red Spot - the colossal storm that has raged on Jupiter for hundreds of years.Scientists also want to measure the abundance of water in the atmosphere - an indicator of how much oxygen was present in Jupiter's region of the Solar System when it formed.The spacecraft's remote sensing instruments will look down into the giant through the many layers and measure their composition, temperature, motion and other properties. The probe will also try to settle old arguments over whether the planet hosts a rocky core or whether its gases go all the way down to the centre in an ever more compressed state.And it will look for the deep swirling sea of liquid metallic hydrogen that many suspect is the driver behind Jupiter's strong magnetic field.Juno is the second in Nasa's so called New Frontiers class missions. The first, New Horizons, was launched towards dwarf planet Pluto in 2006 and should arrive at its target in 2015.
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