Juno left the Earth atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on Aug. 5, 2011, beginning its journey to Jupiter atop the most powerful Atlas variant with five side-mounted boosters. Liftoff occurred at 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
After traveling more than 1.7 billion miles, Juno arrives at the gas giant on Monday.
Our launch day journal
The full launch experience
Earth-facing onboard rocket camera
Upward-facing onboard rocket camera
Launch replay: Beach tracker
Juno’s pre-launch campaign
Atlas 5’s pre-launch campaign
