Two days after its flyby of Earth, Jupiter probe Juno remains in safe mode.
Two days after its flyby of Earth, Jupiter probe Juno remains in safe mode.
The Juno spacecraft is in a healthy and stable state, with its tractor-trailer-size solar panels pointed toward the sun. The mission team is in communication with Juno and has seen no sign of any failures in the probe’s subsystems or components, said project manager Rick Nybakken of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. So Juno’s handlers plan to take their time and do a thorough investigation before attempting to bring all of the spacecraft’s systems back online.
In other words, there is no rush to take the spacecraft out of safe mode. It is far better to figure out exactly what is going on first.
Two days after its flyby of Earth, Jupiter probe Juno remains in safe mode.
The Juno spacecraft is in a healthy and stable state, with its tractor-trailer-size solar panels pointed toward the sun. The mission team is in communication with Juno and has seen no sign of any failures in the probe’s subsystems or components, said project manager Rick Nybakken of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. So Juno’s handlers plan to take their time and do a thorough investigation before attempting to bring all of the spacecraft’s systems back online.
In other words, there is no rush to take the spacecraft out of safe mode. It is far better to figure out exactly what is going on first.