Image: Juno prepared for rotation test stand

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Description: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians at Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. prepare NASA's Juno spacecraft 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.
Title: Juno prepared for rotation test stand
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=53914
Author: Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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