Since entering orbit on July 4, 2016, the Juno spacecraft has executed 34 closest approach passes of Jupiter, completing the prime mission. During each closest approach, called perijove, the spacecraft comes within 4,000 km of the cloud tops and the motion of the spacecraft becomes perturbed by the gravitational field of Jupiter. These small changes in the motion of the spacecraft are detected using the Juno Gravity Science Instrument by measuring the Doppler shift of the radio link between the Juno spacecraft and NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). During a majority of these closest approach passes, the 34-meter DSS-25 antenna transmits simultaneous X-band and Ka-band uplink to the spacecraft. Juno's onboard X-band transponder and Ka-band translator phase-coherently return the signals back to Earth for reception at the same DSS-25 antenna. The precise frequency of these signals is measured by processing open-loop recordings of the signal. These measurements, characterized by ~5-10 micron/sec accuracies (after calibration of charged particle noise and Earth troposphere), have probed the gravity field of Jupiter to unprecedented precision, allowing for discoveries of Jupiter's core size and depth of the zonal winds. Successful operations of the instrument during perijoves requires careful planning and coordination between DSN engineers, the Juno project, and the Juno science team. This work discusses the operations of the Juno Gravity Science Instrument after five years of prime mission operations. Lessons learned are documented to be applied to future missions and the Juno extended mission. Although the Juno extended mission formally started on August 1,2021, on June 7, 2021, the trajectory was modified with a flyby of Ganymede, the third Galilean moon of Jupiter. Gravity and radio science investigations of Jupiter and its moons will continue to play a key role in Juno's objectives during the extended mission.


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    Titel :

    Juno Gravity Science: Five Years of Radio Science Operations with Ka-band Uplink


    Beteiligte:
    Buccino, Dustin (Autor:in) / Kahan, Daniel (Autor:in) / Yang, Oscar (Autor:in) / Parisi, Marzia (Autor:in) / Barbinis, Elias (Autor:in) / Oudrhiri, Kamal (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-03-05


    Format / Umfang :

    3498681 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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