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    • Atlas V rocket carrying the Juno spacecraft flying up to space.
    Rights: NASA/Bill Ingalls Published 30 November 2011 Size: 61 KB Referencing Hub media

    This Atlas V rocket carried the Juno spacecraft in the top payload section. Liftoff was on 5 August 2011. It took 5 years to travel the 2,800 million kilometres to reach Jupiter.

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      Investigating rockets – introduction

      Rocket science includes ideas of forces and motion, how rockets work and some of the challenges for those wanting to make rockets go faster and higher. In the last 60 years, rocket science and ...

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      Brief history of rockets – timeline

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