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NASA celebrates historic moment in Jupiter expedition

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun to orbit Jupiter to probe the origin of the solar system, the US space agency has said.

The $1.1bn mission launched five years ago successfully entered the orbit of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, after a 35-minute manoeuvre, NASA said on Tuesday.

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“Success! Engine burn complete… Juno is now orbiting Jupiter, poised to unlock the planet’s secrets,” NASA said on its Twitter account.

The unmanned solar-powered observatory has travelled 2.7 billion kilometres since it was launched five years ago from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

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