It is been a long time in coming, but NASA's Juno probe is eventually close to accomplishing Jupiter.
NASA reviews that the spacecraft is "on track" to arrive on July 4th, 2016 (how American!), and that the ground crew is tweaking the flight plan to immediately give Juno more time and whole obligations ahead of time table.
The deliver's preliminary orbit is splitting into two so as to test units before the technological know-how collecting begins.
Read: What Happened with SpaceX's Falcon 9 after launchAdditionally, it will take 14 days to finish an orbit rather than the at the beginning deliberate 11.
So one can amplify the mission from 15 months to twenty, but it have to each get primary mapping records sooner (8 orbits in preference to 15) and offer extra leeway in case the Jovian global's magnetism and radiation create havoc.
Hopefully, all this greater work will make certain that scientists understand no longer simply the beginnings of Jupiter and the sun system, however also the conduct of gas giants around alien stars.