Hercules A

Hercules A
Radio-Optical View of the Galaxy Hercules A - Many thanks to: NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Friday, November 5, 2010

Goddard Space Flight Center Delivers Magnetometers for Juno Mission


Goddard has delivered two vector magnetometers to Lockheed Martin in Denver Colorado:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-352

Each magnetometer has two non-magnetic star cameras to measure precise orientation.

Launch is scheduled for August 2011, with arrival in 2016.