Juno Reaches Jupiter!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Return with us to the evening of July 4, 2016 and the exciting arrival at Jupiter of the Juno orbiter. You’ll hear the moment of successful orbital insertion. Several of the mission’s key contributors reveal how Juno accomplished this feat, along with what they hope the spacecraft will tell us about the giant planet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Juno reaches Jupiter this week on planetary radio.
0:05.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the Human Adventure
0:17.0	across our Solar System and beyond.
0:20.2	And what an adventure we have for you this week. Join me at JPL for the thrilling, nerve-racking,
0:26.0	and ultimately triumphant arrival of the Juno spacecraft
0:30.0	on July 4th.
0:31.5	You'll hear the tension and the celebration. Just as importantly we'll talk with
0:36.0	several of the men and women on the Juno team about how this was achieved and what to expect next.
0:42.6	Our special coverage begins now.
0:47.0	If I can ask you to step this way once you get your back,
0:49.0	you can do you in a group this way?
0:51.0	More than a thousand people came to the Jet Propulsion Lab on that 4th of July.
0:57.0	They included members of the Juno team, their loved ones, young and old, a few celebrities
1:01.9	and VIPs, and a large contingent of media reps like me.
1:07.0	Among the VIPs was Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye.
1:11.0	Describe the scene.
1:12.0	There's a lot of people here.
1:14.0	A lot of people are here on the 4th of July.
1:16.0	They're not home barbecuing or carrying on.
1:19.0	They're here for the orbital insertion of the Juno spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter and I'm
1:25.2	invested in this mission. I was there at the launch August 5th 2011 and it's been
1:31.8	almost five years to get out to Jupiter. I did a series of videos for
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