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>DO NOT PUB UNLESS Juno Fails to Make Its Way Into Jupiter’s Orbit
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>At TKtime tonight, the conference room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California filled with silence. No ooohs and aaaahs at fireworks displays here: The team of engineers had just received confirmation that their intrepid space probe, Juno, has failed to make its way into Jupiter’s orbit.
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>That maneuver, a 35-minute ordeal that should have begun at 11:18 pm Eastern tonight, was the culmination of a five-year journey through space and many more years of work from the JPL team.