Juno, arriving at Jupiter soon.

It's to be hoped there's no Insertion Loss, then.
 
When it come to Jupiter (and the rest of the Kosmos) we are all amateurs

Still hope for a decent arrival !
 
Rocket to be fired in a little under 18 hours.
 
Juno is the wife of Jupiter - could be a problem
 
One more burn on Wednesday to perfect the orbit, mission control has powered up six of the test instruments on board but there is no measurements or results of the local environment much before September , though I believe some images will be released before then.

The external camera is going to have the most radiation affecting it and is likely to be the first instrument to suffer damage.
 
First flyby tomorrow.

Juno will be about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds and traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet.

Not only will Juno's suite of eight science instruments be on, the spacecraft's visible light imager—JunoCam will also be snapping some closeups. A handful of JunoCam images, including the highest resolution imagery of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter's north and south poles, are expected to be released during the later part of next week.

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-nasa-juno-soar-closest-jupiter.html
 
Closest approach this afternoon, it takes aboout 50 minutes for any telemetry to be received back on Earth. Nothing bad reported as yet.

First images should be available before the end of the week if the radiation hasn't cooked everything.
 
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