THE JUNO PROGRAM

Abstract

The code name JUNO was given to a series of scientific Earth- satellite and space-probe firings conducted cooperatively by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the United States' participation in the International Geophysical Year program. The one common denominator of the entire JUNO program was the spinning cluster of JPL high-speed stages that were mounted on top of both the Redstone and Jupiter vehicles. The high-speed stages were originally proposed in the Project Orbiter studies of 1954-55, and were developed initially for the RTV program of 1955-57. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0262538

Entities

Organizations

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cloud Cover
  • Escape Velocity
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Launch Vehicles
  • Nose Cones
  • Solar System
  • Space Probes
  • Surgical Ablation Techniques
  • Test Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • ballistics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris