Is that really what happened? I work at JPL and am tempted to walk across lab and give someone a very stern look if so. I haven't been able to keep up with Juno as much as I've wanted to just out of being too busy on MSL. :P
That is indeed what happened. Lockheed made the spacecraft, but stern looks are pretty cool, don't let me keep you from giving some out. I take it you don't work on the pre-launch side of things, then. The QA and red tape have grown into a bureaucratic nightmare, and although Juno is only one example, I'd wager that the return on the investment into all the additional oversight is right around nothing. I'm so glad to be done with that phase of my project (MMS). Is this geeking out? Do we tag kleinbl00 yet?
Currently, I don't have time to put together any insight more thorough than what you could find by googling. I'll be looking at all that stuff in about a year or so from now, but until then, my singular focus is publishing my own papers. SoooOO0oOoO0o... did you ever sell your soul to a graduate school?What's your take on the findings so far with Jupiter?
Just do me a solid and be sure to tag me whenever y'all geek out.