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Comment Re:Where does it go next? (Score 5, Interesting) 71

That's not how orbits work. After the 32nd orbit, Juno will enter its 33rd orbit. Orbits are inertial, and only require fuel for station-keeping. On this orbit, however, no orbital perturbations will cleverly keep Juno out of the worst of Jupiter's tremendous magnetic fields, which trap cosmic rays, solar wind particles, and other ionizing radiation, and so Juno's electronics will begin to degrade. No longer able to speak to us, Juno will keep orbiting until the orbital trajectory itself begins to degrade and it spirals down into the planet to burn up in the atmosphere.
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Submission + - Exclusive images of Endeavour's damaged tiles

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Neptec Design Group, a Canadian company and a NASA prime contractor for 25 space missions, was kind enough to send me exclusive images of Endeavour's damaged tiles during its last take-off. So here are some of these pictures provided by Neptec. For more information, please read a recent interview with Iain Christie, the Neptec's president."

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