More recently this planet has been visited by passing spacecraft orbiters and probes.
Satellite launched to jupiter.
Nasa launched the 1 1 billion satellite from cape canaveral florida at 12 25 p m after almost a decade of building and testing the spacecraft.
Edt friday to begin a five year journey to jupiter.
It weighs 3 2 tonnes the heaviest so far to be indigenously launched.
Nasa s solar powered juno spacecraft lifted off from cape canaveral air force station in florida at 9 25 a m.
Not included are most earth science satellites commercial satellites or manned missions.
First satellites from each country are included.
This timeline of artificial satellites and space probes includes unmanned spacecraft including technology demonstrators observatories lunar probes and interplanetary probes.
Juno is a nasa space probe orbiting the planet jupiter after entering orbit on july 5 2016.
After a five year journey the craft entered orbit of jupiter on 5 july 2016 utc for a multi year mission to peer into jupiter s atmosphere and provide global scientific coverage of the planet.
It then became the first spacecraft to fly past saturn and.
The mission juno satellite launched into clear blue skies friday beginning a five year journey to the largest planet in our solar system jupiter.
Pioneer 10 and 11 and voyager 1 and 2 were the first to fly by jupiter in the 1970s and since then we ve sent galileo to orbit the gas.
The exploration of jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft it began with the arrival of pioneer 10 into the jovian system in 1973 and as of 2016 has continued with eight further spacecraft missions all of these missions were undertaken by the national aeronautics and space administration nasa and all but two have been flybys that have taken detailed.
Introduction while jupiter has been known since ancient times the first detailed observations of this planet were made by galileo galilei in 1610 with a small telescope.
Somanath said we are trying to increase the capability of carrying 2 5 tonne satellites to over 10 tonne satellites in.