Video: NASA TV coverage of arrival of Juno probe at Jupiter

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fire its engine to go into orbit around Jupiter this evening: Live coverage: Juno spacecraft hours away from arriving at Jupiter – Spaceflight Now

By the time engineers on Earth receive confirmation of the start of Juno’s one-shot Jupiter Orbit Insertion burn at 11:18 p.m. EDT (0318 GMT), it will all be over.

If the firing goes according to plan, Juno will already be in orbit around Jupiter at that time, ground controllers won’t know for sure until 11:53 p.m. EDT (0353 GMT), when a tone sent by the spacecraft at the conclusion of the burn will be received by NASA’s Deep Space Network.

At Jupiter’s distance a half-billion miles away, it takes 48 minutes and 19 seconds for a radio signal to travel at the speed of light between Juno and Earth.

Here is a timeline of major events in the mission

NASA TV coverage:

This video from Juno shows the moons of Jupiter rotating around the planet as the spacecraft approached the Jupiter system: