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. | ||
Europa Clipper will perform flybys of Mars and Earth before entering orbit around Jupiter in 2030.
Luna Space Telecommunications Co. Ltd. purchased 1,200 Hughes JUPITER Terminals to transform its VSAT network.
Lucy launched in 2021 is conducting flybys of multiple Jupiter Trojan and main-belt asteroids to study Trojan diversity and understand the solar system’s early history.
The implementation of the Hughes Jupiter System on Nilesat 301 is expected to be completed by the end of 2024-07-01.
Hughes continues to provide services from Jupiter-1, which launched in 2012 and offers 10 Mbps speeds.
Jupiter-2 launched in 2017 and offers 25 Mbps broadband speeds.
Existing Hughes customers are interested in ordering new indoor modems to upgrade from Jupiter-2 to Jupiter-3 plans offering 50–100 Mbps.
JUPITER 3 will join the Hughes JUPITER fleet, which includes two other Maxar-built spacecraft.
JUPITER 3 will join the Hughes JUPITER fleet, which includes two other Maxar-built spacecraft.
Psyche is scheduled to reach the asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter in July 2029.
JUPITER 3 will join the Hughes JUPITER fleet, which includes four other Maxar-built spacecraft.
JUPITER 3 will join the Hughes JUPITER fleet, which includes four other Maxar-built spacecraft.
Jupiter-3 is expected to add 500 gigabits per second of capacity and to double the capacity of EchoStar’s Jupiter fleet after reaching the 95 degrees west orbital slot and completing health checks.
At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 19,1448 km (32,0 m) above Jupiter’s cloud tops.
The Jupiter Rocket is designed to take payloads up to 12,0 m to suborbital altitudes.
The European Space Agency successfully deployed the 16-meter-long radar antenna on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission on 2023-05-12.
Jupiter 3 is a Ka-band satellite that would more than double the capacity of Jupiter 2, which launched in 2017.
The RIME instrument is an ice-penetrating radar designed to study the surface and subsurface structure of Jupiter’s icy moons down to a depth of 9 km.
The radar instrument on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft had not fully deployed its 16-meter antenna in the week after JUICE's 2023-04-13 launch.
A scientific camera on Juice will take high-resolution images of Jupiter and its icy moons once Juice is in the Jovian system in 2031.