Excellence in International Collaboration: the Juno Mission to Jupiter

Dr. Michela Muñoz Fernández
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109
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Abstract

The Juno mission is an example of excellence in international collaboration between NASA and ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). Previous missions between NASA and ASI have built a solid relationship that resulted in ASI providing the JIRAM (Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper), and the Ka-band translator as part of the Juno payload. In addition, ASI also provides the SRU to the Juno spacecraft (LMSS). The paper describes more in depth the challenges, strategies, and relationship between the two space agencies in order to achieve a successful delivery of international payloads into a spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin (LMSS) and in a mission managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Presented at ISDC 2011 - Huntsville. Paper and presentation charts are not available.