Where is Juno right now?
Juno is currently about 932,766,240 kilometres from Earth, roughly 6.24 astronomical units, or 51.9 light-minutes away, in orbit around Jupiter. Whether it is still operating has not been publicly confirmed since its funding lapsed in late 2025.
Juno launched on 5 August 2011 and arrived at Jupiter on 4 July 2016, settling into a long polar orbit that swings far out from the planet and then in over the poles at close range roughly every 33 days.
Its status is genuinely unclear, and this page will not pretend otherwise. The last funded extension ran to September 2025. The last perijove NASA scheduled publicly was number 76, on 17 September 2025. The mission was given nothing in the 2026 budget request, and the government shutdown that began the same week the extension expired left nobody able to say publicly whether the spacecraft had been switched off. No end of mission has been announced. The available record suggests it was still in contact with the Deep Space Network in August 2026, on roughly its 86th close pass. Read the map as showing where the orbit puts it, not as evidence that anyone is listening.
The most consequential thing it did was weigh Jupiter's insides. By measuring tiny Doppler shifts in its radio signal on each close pass, Juno mapped the gravity field precisely enough to show that the core is not a compact ball of rock but a diffuse region blended into the hydrogen above it.