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SPACE WATCH
Juno Solar Arrays Deploy
NASA – This still image from a Juno mission animation shows how the spinning spacecraft might look during deployment of its giant solar arrays. Solar array deployment takes place just a few minutes after Juno separates from its launch vehicle upper stage booster.
Juno’s principal investigator is Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the mission. Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver, Colo., is building the spacecraft. The Italian Space Agency, Rome, is contributing an infrared spectrometer instrument and a portion of the radio science experiment. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Juno Centaur Separation
This still image from a Juno mission animation shows the spacecraft soon after launch as it separates from its Centaur upper rocket stage. The Juno spacecraft is in its stowed-for-launch configuration here, with its three large solar arrays folded against its sides.
Juno’s principal investigator is Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., manages the mission. Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver, Colo., is building the spacecraft. The Italian Space Agency, Rome, is contributing an infrared spectrometer instrument and a portion of the radio science experiment. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Juno Reaches the Launch Pad
As dawn breaks at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41, a crane is lowered over the nose of the Atlas payload fairing enclosing the Juno spacecraft. The fairing arrived at the launch pad in preparation for its lift to the top of the Atlas rocket stacked in the Vertical Integration Facility. Image credit: NASA/Cory Huston July 27, 2011
Ready for Transport
In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Atlas payload fairing enclosing the Juno spacecraft is secured on a transporter and ready for its trip to Space Launch Complex 41. Image credit: NASA/Frank Michaux July 25, 2011
Juno Enclosed
In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, half of the Atlas payload fairing appears to loom above the Juno spacecraft as work to enclose the spacecraft for launch gets under way. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett July 18, 2011
Prepped for Fueling
At Astrotech’s Hazardous Processing Facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians secure NASA’s Juno spacecraft to a fueling stand where the spacecraft will be loaded with the propellant necessary for orbit maneuvers and the attitude control system. Image credit: NASA/ Troy Cryder June 27, 2011
By Mark Bergen – Shortly after Standard & Poor’s knocked down the national credit ratings, 
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