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Juno Solar Panels Complete Testing

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Technicians at Astrotech’s payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. stow solar array #2 against the body of NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC

Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light until they are deployed in space after launch. The last of the Jupiter-bound spacecraft’s panels completed pre-flight testing at the Astrotech payload processing facility in…

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