Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.
Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.
| Year | Historical missions | Forecast launches |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 4 | 0 |
| 1959 | 4 | 0 |
| 1960 | 2 | 0 |
| 1961 | 3 | 0 |
Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.
| Variant | Orbit | Capacity | Altitude | Inclination | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No performance specsNo structured payload capacity rows are linked to this vehicle family. | |||||
Latest launched missions using variants in this family.
| Mission | Variant | Launch |
|---|---|---|
| Launch 1961-F04 | Juno II | May 24, 1961 |
| Explorer 11 | Juno II | Apr 27, 1961 |
| Launch 1961-F01 | Juno II | Feb 25, 1961 |
| Explorer 8 |
Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.
| Variant | Stages | Missions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Juno II | Not stated | 10 | Retired |
Jupiter C | Not stated | 3 | Retired |
Juno II |
| Nov 3, 1960 |
| Launch 1960-F04 | Juno II | Mar 23, 1960 |
| Explorer 7 | Juno II | Oct 13, 1959 |
| Launch 1959-F07 | Juno II | Aug 15, 1959 |
| Launch 1959-F05 | Juno II | Jul 16, 1959 |
Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.
| Mission | Variant | Announced |
|---|---|---|
No forecasted missionsNo upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family. | ||
China is developing a Jupiter probe targeting a launch around 2030.
Hughes Jupiter System enables over 42,000 community Wi-Fi hotspots across the world.
The planned Europa Clipper trajectory is a Mars-Earth Gravity Assist (MEGA) with a 21-day launch window in October 2024 and an expected arrival at Jupiter in April 2030.
A July 2020 briefing described an August 2024 launch window using SLS that would get Europa Clipper to Jupiter in no more than three years without flybys.
The Space Launch System had been the preferred vehicle for Europa Clipper because it could deliver the spacecraft to Jupiter much more quickly than a trajectory requiring planetary flybys.
A July 2020 briefing to a National Academies committee presented a trajectory for Europa Clipper that included a launch in October 2024 followed by a Mars flyby in February 2025 and an Earth flyby in December 2026, with Jupiter orbit insertion in April 2030.
NASA plans to launch the Lucy mission in October 2021 as the first mission to visit Jupiter Trojans.
EchoStar has sellable U.S. capacity remaining on its Jupiter-2 satellite, which launched in 2016, but that capacity is not near urban centers.
NASA selected Lucy as the other Discovery program mission in January 2017 to visit Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit.
ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) plans to study exoplanet transits at ultraviolet wavelengths to understand how some hot Jupiter exoplanets lose mass from their atmospheres.
JUICE is expected to reach Jupiter in 2029 regardless of whether it launches on Ariane 5 or Ariane 6.
China’s deep space exploration roadmap includes an orbiter and rover to Mars in 2020, a Mars sample return mission, a combined near-Earth object sample return and comet rendezvous mission, and a mission to Jupiter launching around 2030.
The TT&C tests were carried out to assist planning for China’s interplanetary missions including a Mars mission in 2020 and a probe to Jupiter around 2030.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft will orbit Jupiter and make close approaches to its moon Europa.
Appropriators directed NASA to include adequate funding for continued research and development of the Jupiter Europa Lander in the fiscal year 2021 budget request.
The Delta-V Earth Gravity Assist 3-Minus trajectory under consideration involves a November 2023 launch, an Earth flyby in October 2025, and arrival at Jupiter in September 2029.
ESA wants Ariane 64 to be an option for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission but will consider launching JUICE on Ariane 64 only after a commercial Ariane 64 launch has occurred.
Hughes Network Systems operates three high-throughput broadband satellites: Spaceway-3 (launched in 2007), Jupiter-1 (launched in 2012), and Jupiter-2 (launched in 2016).
ESA is working to switch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission from Ariane 5 to Ariane 6 to add a fourth institutional mission to Arianespace’s Ariane 6 backlog.