juno Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:48:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Powered Travel Record Broken by NASA https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-solar-powered-spacecraft-record/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-solar-powered-spacecraft-record/#respond Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:48:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=58714 A NASA spacecraft has set a new record for longest distance traveled when using solar power. Juno, the first solar powered spacecraft, was launched in 2011. On Wednesday, it was around 493 million miles away from the sun. Juno was specifically designed to be able to operate at such a far distance away, with a […]

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