This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Bob Zimmerman is here behind the black space engineering behind us, exploration in front of us. The Juno mission. What was its mission? Where is Juno now, Bob?

Juno is an orbiter around Jupiter. It's been there now for almost a decade. It arrived in 2016.

It's been orbiting at a wide orbit. Its main mission was to study the atmosphere, the magnetic field, the regions around Jupiter, as well as its interior.

And it's done that now for almost a decade.

It had several, its mission was only supposed to last about two years. Its mission has been

extended multiple times over the years. That last extension ended on September 30th, 2025.

The next day, the government shut down. The Trump administration had, in its budget proposal, had not proposed another extension. So as far as the Trump

administration was concerned, Juno's mission should end. The budget that Congress passed is unclear about whether or not Juno is going to get an

extension or not. And that budget hasn't passed anyway, not even the continuing resolution.

So there's been questions. Is Juno even operational right now? And NASA can't say because it's

shut down. And so what we think is going, there has been signal coming down from Juno.

So the thing is operational and data can be received.

But people aren't getting paid to do anything.

So I suspect the science team might be keeping the thing operational, but not aggressively

because they're not getting paid.

Whether this spacecraft will continue after this is, I think, somewhat uncertain,

and I think it's likely not to end. The mission is likely to end.

It has basically finished this job.

There's a limited amount of knowledge they can get from it from now on.

And NASA has limited resources.

They'd be better off focusing on spending

money on other planetary missions. That's at least my thoughts. We'll see how this plays out.

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