NASA"s Juno probe slips into Jupiter"s orbit
The tense wait to see if NASA"s Juno spacecraft made it safely into orbit around Jupiter is over. After a five-year journey this was the stage the whole mission could have ended in disaster. (SOUNDBITE)(English) DIANE BROWN, JUNO PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE AT NASA HEADQUARTERS, SAYING: "To know we can all go to bed tonight and not worry about what is going to happen tomorrow is pretty awesome." (SOUNDBITE)(English) RICK NYBAKKEN, JUNO PROJECT MANAGER FROM NASA"S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, SAYING: "So we prepared a contingency communications procedure and, guess what, we don"t need that any more." Juno had just one chance to get into orbit around the solar system"s largest planet. If anything had gone even slightly wrong the probe would have sailed helplessly past, taking with it five years of hope and a billion dollar budget. Now the delighted scientists can look forward to what they hope will be a revealing 20 months of close study. At the end of the mission Juno will be made to dive into Jupiter"s atmosphere where it"ll be crushed and vapourised.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/07/05/juno-probe-in-jupiter-orbit?videoId%3D369160450
