The events on this day in history for our heritage companies are noted below.
The earliest event was in 1965, the latest event was in 2011
One milestone event (5 to 65+ years ago)
Human Spaceflight:
1966 – LAUNCH: AS-202, Saturn 1B, LC34, CCAFS – Suborbital flight testing Apollo CM heatshield
1975 – MM X-24B flight 55, Dryden Lake – John Manke
Military and Classified Programs:
1962 – LAUNCH: Classified mission, GD Atlas/Lockheed Agena B, SLC3W, VAFB
1964 – LAUNCH: Lockheed Corona 83, Thor SLV-2A/Lockheed Agena D, SLC1W, VAFB – MILESTONE: 60 years ago
Exploration and Interplanetary Programs:
2002 – LM Stardust begins second collection of interstellar dust particles
2011 – LAUNCH: LM Juno, ULA Atlas V 551, LC41, CCAFS – Jupiter orbiting mission
Earth-Monitoring and Civil Weather Satellite programs:
NONE
Commercial Programs:
1995 – LAUNCH (Partial FAILURE): LM (MM) Koreasat 1 (Mugungwha 1), Delta 7925, LC17B, CCAFS – satellite left in LEO, propellant usage cut 50% of life
Test, ICBM, FBM programs:
1965 – LAUNCH: GD Atlas F, 576-A2, VAFB
Other:
NONE
The photos today are of the launch of Juno in 2011 on ULA Atlas V 551, the spacecraft being processed prior to launch and a photo of Jupiter by Juno . Juno is on its second extended mission (through 2025), now examining the inner moons of Ganymede, Europa and Io.
Launch Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.
Processing Photo caption : Technicians at Astrotech’s payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. monitor NASA’s Juno spacecraft, as it is lifted by an overhead crane, for its move to a rotation stand for center of gravity, weighing and balancing testing. Juno is scheduled to launch aboard United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Aug. 5.The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter’s poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant’s origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. For more information visit: www.nasa.gov/juno. Photo Credit: NASA
Jupiter Photo: This striking view of Jupiters Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASAs Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Here’s more about the photo:
Juno took the three images used to produce this color-enhanced view on Feb. 12, 2019, between 9:59 a.m. PST (12:59 p.m. EST) and 10:39 p.m. PST (1:39 p.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed its 17th science pass of Jupiter. At the time the images were taken, the spacecraft was between 16,700 miles (26,900 kilometers) and 59,300 miles (95,400 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, above a southern latitude spanning from about 40 to 74 degrees.
Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created this image using data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager. Note that the source images were taken very close to the cloud tops of Jupiter and projected to look like a sphere in post-processing.
Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
