{"id":4861,"date":"2013-10-09T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2013-10-09T18:43:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:43:10","slug":"juno-flyby-today-hams-to-send-messages-to-the-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4861","title":{"rendered":"Juno Flyby today &#8211; Hams to send messages to the Jupiter spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu\/hijuno\/\" target=\"_d\">Say &#8216;HI&#8217; to Juno! Day<\/a>\u00a0in which amateur radio operators can send a message to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Juno<\/a>\u00a0probe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA&#8217;s Juno spacecraft will fly past Earth on October 9, 2013 to receive a gravity assist from our planet, putting it on course for Jupiter. To celebrate this event, the Juno mission is inviting amateur radio operators around the world to say &#8220;HI&#8221; to Juno in a coordinated Morse Code message. Juno&#8217;s radio &amp; plasma wave experiment, called Waves, should be able to detect the message if enough people participate. So please join in, and help spread the word to fellow amateur radio enthusiasts!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This animation shows how Juno uses the earth&#8217;s gravity to get an assist<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYp5p2oL51g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And this video has a description of the flyby from Juno team members:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9TvbDNx6a8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu\/media-gallery\" target=\"_d\">\u00a0JunoCam<\/a>\u00a0on the spacecraft is also taking pictures of the earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Bill Nye of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Society<\/a> gives a his explanation of how the probe uses the earth to get a boost to Jupiter:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3nj_xq8nfxE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2<\/strong>: The fly-by may help solve a mystery:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/ESA_and_NASA_stumped_by_cosmic_mystery\" target=\"_d\">ESA and NASA stumped by cosmic mystery \/ Operations &#8211; ESA<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Engineers hope that the new measurements will unravel the decades-old \u2018flyby anomaly\u2019 \u2013 an unexplained variation in spacecraft speeds detected during some swingbys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"s_1\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe detected the flyby anomaly during Rosetta\u2019s first Earth visit in March 2005,\u201d says Trevor Morley, flight dynamics expert at ESA\u2019s ESOC operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrustratingly, no anomaly was seen during Rosetta&#8217;s subsequent Earth flybys in 2007 and 2011. This is a real cosmic mystery that no one has yet figured out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Say &#8216;HI&#8217; to Juno! Day\u00a0in which amateur radio operators can send a message to the\u00a0Mission Juno\u00a0probe: NASA&#8217;s Juno spacecraft will fly past Earth on October 9, 2013 to receive a gravity assist from our planet, putting it on course for Jupiter. To celebrate this event, the Juno mission is inviting amateur radio operators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Juno Flyby today &#8211; Hams to send messages to the Jupiter spacecraft<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-radio","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1gp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5746,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5746","url_meta":{"origin":4861,"position":0},"title":"Amateur radio operators reached Juno during its fly-by","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When the Juno\u00a0spacecraft recently did a fly-by of earth on its way to Jupiter, amateur radio enthusiasts were urged to try to contact Juno.\u00a0This brief documentary video describes the successful project: http:\/\/youtu.be\/_yqHy_MpNiQ Caption: During its close flyby of Earth, NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft listened for a communication from amateur radio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space participation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space participation","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=14"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/3nW03lcrw_8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5628,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5628","url_meta":{"origin":4861,"position":1},"title":"Video: Juno probe produces great view of the Earth-Moon system","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a cool video of the earth and moon taken by the Juno probe as it came it to get its kick to Jupiter from the earth: NASA's Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby http:\/\/youtu.be\/_CzBlSXgzqI When NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Multiple media&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Multiple media","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=36"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/_CzBlSXgzqI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4874,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4874","url_meta":{"origin":4861,"position":2},"title":"Juno gravity assist successful despite safe mode + Amateurs image the flyby","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Juno\u00a0spacecraft successfully ricocheted from earth yesterday to set itself on course to Jupiter (see earlier posting) :\u00a0Juno goes into safe mode during Earth flyby - Spaceflight Now. 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