--- title: Juno Spacecraft Begins Jupiter Orbit: Watch Live description: NASA's Juno spacecraft, which left Earth in 2011, will arrive at Jupiter just in the to celebrate the Fourth of July canonical: https://time.com/4392733/jupiter-juno-spacecraft-orbit-watch-live/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-04T19:54:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:02:07.745Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Live: NASA's Juno Spacecraft Begins Jupiter Orbit og:description: Juno left Earth in 2011 og:url: https://time.com/4392733/jupiter-juno-spacecraft-orbit-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c816795fabf97ef/69889a8c2dce01b44b9e9b5f/juno-arrives-at-jupiter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: juno-arrives-at-jupiter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: NASA's Juno Spacecraft Begins Jupiter Orbit twitter:description: Juno left Earth in 2011 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c816795fabf97ef/69889a8c2dce01b44b9e9b5f/juno-arrives-at-jupiter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: NASA's Juno Spacecraft Begins Jupiter Orbit by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 4, 2016 7:54 PM UTC  This illustration depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit above Jupiter. This illustration depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit above Jupiter.NASA/JPL-Caltech by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 4, 2016 7:54 PM UTC NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which left Earth in 2011, will [arrive at Jupiter just in the to celebrate the Fourth of July](http://time.com/4391297/juno-jupiter-july-4). The craft has nine instruments that will find out more about the fifth planet from the Sun’s gravity, radiation field, atmospheric chemistry, aurorae, magnetism, and other vital signs — along with lots of pictures. The data will be sent to earth over the course of the next few years, with the final bits of information set to arrive in February 2018. The spacecraft is expected to settle into orbit around Jupiter starting at 4 p.m. EST. You can watch a live stream of the spacecraft’s arrival above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4392733/jupiter-juno-spacecraft-orbit-watch-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4392733/jupiter-juno-spacecraft-orbit-watch-live/"},"headline":"Watch Live: NASA's Juno Spacecraft Begins Jupiter Orbit","datePublished":"2016-07-04T19:54:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:02:07.745Z","description":"Juno left Earth in 2011","url":"https://time.com/4392733/jupiter-juno-spacecraft-orbit-watch-live/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c816795fabf97ef/69889a8c2dce01b44b9e9b5f/juno-arrives-at-jupiter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c816795fabf97ef/69889a8c2dce01b44b9e9b5f/juno-arrives-at-jupiter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"juno-arrives-at-jupiter","caption":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","creditText":"NASA/JPL-Caltech","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4392733/jupiter-juno-spacecraft-orbit-watch-live/","name":"Watch Live: NASA's Juno Spacecraft Begins Jupiter Orbit"}}]}] ```