On Tuesday, hours after arriving on Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft had already been flung by the planet’s immense gravity onto the outward leg of its orbit.

That was the plan, of course. The spacecraft arrived on Monday night, diving through intense barrages of radiation and reaching 130,000 miles per hour as it passed 2,900 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

Juno fired its main engine for 35 minutes, slowing it down just enough to be captured by Jupiter’s gravity.

“Everything executed just like we designed it to,” Rick Nybakken, Juno’s project manager, said in an interview. “It’s doing very well.”