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NASA's Juno Mission Exits Safe Mode, Performs Trim Maneuver
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 25, 2016

Juno Mission Status Report

NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its
next close flyby of Jupiter.

Mission controllers commanded Juno to exit safe mode Monday, Oct. 24,
with confirmation of safe mode exit received on the ground at 10:05 a.m.
PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT). The spacecraft entered safe mode on Oct. 18 when
a software performance monitor induced a reboot of the spacecraft's onboard computer. The team is still investigating the cause of the reboot and assessing two main engine check valves.

"Juno exited safe mode as expected, is healthy and is responding to all
our commands," said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "We anticipate we will
be turning on the instruments in early November to get ready for our December flyby."

In preparation for that close flyby of Jupiter, Juno executed an orbital
trim maneuver Tuesday at 11:51 a.m. PDT (2:51 p.m. EDT) using its smaller thrusters. The burn, which lasted just over 31 minutes, changed Juno's
orbital velocity by about 5.8 mph (2.6 meters per second) and consumed
about 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) of propellant. Juno will perform its next science flyby of Jupiter on Dec. 11, with time of closest approach to
the gas giant occurring at 9:03 a.m. PDT (12:03 p.m. EDT). The complete
suite of Juno's science instruments, as well as the JunoCam imager, will
be collecting data during the upcoming flyby.

"We are all excited and eagerly anticipating this next pass close to Jupiter," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "The science collected so far has been truly amazing."

The Juno spacecraft launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. During its mission of exploration, Juno soars low over the planet's cloud tops -- as close as about 2,600
miles (4,100 kilometers). During these flybys, Juno probes beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studies its auroras to learn more
about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

More information on the Juno mission is available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/juno

The public can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:

http://www.facebook.com/NASAJuno

http://www.twitter.com/NASAJuno

Images and information on how members of the public can participate in JunoCam's mission, can be found at:

www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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NASA Headquarters, Washington
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