Corridor Business Journal: The University of Iowa will have several more years to study the largest planet in our solar system. The U.S. space agency NASA announced this week it will extend the Juno mission to Jupiter and its moons through September 2025, or until the spacecraft’s end of life. Launched in 2011, the Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, with a planned mission completion in July 2021. Along for the ride has been a radio- and plasma-wave instrument designed and built at UI. Called Waves, the instrument has yielded a trove of discoveries, including the distribution of lightning on Jupiter, insights about the generation of intense auroras on the planet, and the first direct detection of small dust grains between Jupiter’s ring system and its atmosphere.