Launched NASA's Juno spacecraft on a New Frontiers mission to Jupiter. Juno entered polar orbit around the planet in July 2016 to study its composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Jupiter Orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 5 August 2011, 16:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2011-040
- Launches in 2011
- 41st of 84
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