Thanks for these links Seke, the whole mission would have passed me by. Usually rely on the Beeb for science stories. Heck they cannot cover everything.

For those who don't want to miss anything regarding NASA, subscribe to the "NASA Breakings News" RSS feed. Here's a link to the countdown page [20 hours to go, so for me early morning on the 5th [about 5:15, for parts of the USA, the afternoon / evening of the 4th]. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html which also shows an animation of the mapping orbits, which are highly elliptical. Keep in mind that the vehicle is being slowed in a 35 minute engine burn from 260,000km/hr to 210,000 at which point Jupiter closeness will facilitate sling-shotting JUNO to then go off and come back on Jupiter's gravitational pool... when pulled off [the Jupiter Orbital Insertion - Timeline , which is the only time it will go behind the planet], it will further circle to always be in earths direct view with a transmission power in a heavily radiated environment just about to be received by arrayed antennas on Earth [500 Watts solar powered energy is all it's got... collect data, fly away, transmit, fall back, collect data, fly away, transmit and so on is sort of the picture]

And we have JUNO orbit at 23:53 EDT... just about July 4th.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-juno-...bit-around-mighty-jupiter

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