Mighty Jupiter as we've never seen it this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond. Jupiter is under the eye of Juno and under the

spacecraft's other instruments that appear far below that world's

madly swirling surface. Juno Principal investigator Scott Bolton is here

to review the amazing science.

Bill Nye also joins me for a conversation that stretches from India to William Shatner.

Later Bruce Betts will try his hand at Space Opera as we get a random space fact and hear about

the night sky.

Jason Davis is the Planetary Society's Digital Editor.

Jason, welcome back to the show to talk about this June 2nd news, well you brought it to us on June 2nd,

in the blog at planetary.org, what is this new development toward getting LITSail 2 into Earth orbit.

LightS-Sales ride to orbit, which is Prox1.

It's this little kind of small washing machine-sized spacecraft that houses our little cube-set. Prox1 shipped from its home in Georgia Tech,

at Georgia Tech where it was built out to Albuquerque, New Mexico and that's where the Air Force research

lab is.

The Air Force has the primary payload on the rocket, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that

will be using to get into space.

So they also have sponsored Prox1,

this small spacecraft.

Light sail goes inside Prox1.

So it's a pretty big milestone

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