Juno: New Origins News

For the last month you may have noticed we have been acting a bit weird. We said we were going to go straight to 1.1 with the propellers and more contracts, but we got a bit sidetracked... Today we can finally talk about it, a collaboration with the European Space Agency!



We have been in talks with ESA to include JUICE in the game. The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer is the first European mission to visit a Gas Giant. It will launch tomorrow, April 13th, from Kourou, French Guiana, on top of an Ariane V, heading towards the moons of Jupiter after an insane chain of Gravity Assist.

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To commemorate this launch we have added a new Sandbox Challenge to the game, where you'll be in charge of getting JUICE to visit all moons of Tydos with the least possible Delta-V. In order to better support this mission we have added new properties to the solar panel arrays, such as a new hinge with a custom deployment animation to match the ones in JUICE and the ability to override through the hidden properties how many panels are in each row. Also taking the opportunity to flesh out some issues that the arrays had before.



We have put a lot of focus on improving the Map View experience, with an overhaul of the Planned Burns, Closest Approach calculations, clarity improvements and a ton of bug fixes to ensure a smooth experience when visiting other worlds.

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Thanks a lot to ESA for wanting to be a part of Juno: New Origins and bring this amazing mission to the game. All the new features are not just available for the challenge, so you will be able to enjoy the new solar panels and improved Map View in your own careers and sandboxes.

If you want to learn more about JUICE, here are some useful links:

The Update Trailer

Watch The Launch

Learn More About JUICE

1.0.900 Release Notes 1.0.909 Release Notes

This update has greatly improved the user experience in Map View. Among many things, setting up planned burns to rendezvous with other crafts and doing transfer orbits to other planets has been made a lot easier. But that's not all, there are a whole lot of other bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements as well.

• Upgraded to Unity 2021.3.19f1.
  
• Several UX enhancements to Map View, including font changes, more readable text, and many other tweaks.
  
• Planned burn tweaks, improvements, and fixes.
  
• Closest approach info updates and bug fixes.
  
• Rebalanced and fixed various aspects of the career mode, including tweaks to contracts and tutorials.
  
• UI updates for better navigation and interaction.
  
• Improved the Crew Assignment dialog.
  
• Audio adjustments for a more immersive experience.
  
• Vizzy improvements and bug fixes.
  
• Solar panel enhancements and bug fixes.
  
• Bug fixes for modding, parts, autopilot, and more.
  

The full release notes are here.

We just released version 1.0.8 on all platforms! This means that the Career Mode update is now available on iOS and Android and to celebrate we are offering a discount today on those stores! Although you may have already explored the new features on the Steam version, you can now enjoy them on-the-go with your mobile device.



We've done our best to maintain solid runtime performance throughout this update. Just for fun, we decided to stress test Juno: New Origins today at the office. Here it is running a 224 part craft at 59fps on an iPhone 7 from 2016.



But that's not all – we're also offering a discount on our other popular game, SimplePlanes, on mobile today as well. So if you're a fan of that game or have been curious about it, now is the perfect time to try it out.

We hope you enjoy the new stuff! Thanks for playing!

Here are the release notes for 1.0.8.

It has been two weeks since we launched Juno: New Origins and we have been overwhelmed by the support and excitement from so many new players. Our team has been working hard to address the feedback we have received, and we've just released update v1.0.6 that resolves several reported issues. The full release notes are here.

We're dedicated to improving the game and we appreciate your support and feedback! We're eager to see what the future holds and look forward to working with our amazing community to make this game the best it can be.

Thanks for playing!

We are thrilled to announce that Juno: New Origins has hit version 1.0 and has officially left Early Access on Steam! After six years of development, the game has grown from a simple rocket simulator to a comprehensive aerospace sandbox, where players can bring to life anything they can imagine - from rockets, airplanes, and cars to entire planets. Here's the launch trailer:

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This update includes the highly-anticipated Career Mode update, which is our largest update yet and has been in development for over one year. In Career Mode, players can now grow their own aerospace company by completing contracts to earn money and discover a mixture of hand-crafted and procedural contracts that offer countless hours of new gameplay. Conquer milestones and explore landmarks to earn tech points and unlock new technology in the tech tree. Interactive tutorials are available to show players how to build and operate rockets, cars, and airplanes.

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our community for all of their support, suggestions, bug reports, and feedback throughout the Early Access period. Your contributions have been invaluable in shaping the game into what it is today!

We can't wait for you to experience all that Juno: New Origins has to offer! Thank you again for your support and we hope you enjoy the game!