How could a Jovian cloud-dwelling race develop space flight?

I have been wracking my brain with this one. I'm writing a story where a number of alien races who are unable to leave their homeworld for one reason or another send probes into space out of sheer curiosity. But how might a species that lives in the atmosphere of a gas-giant planet like Jupiter pull that off? I'm completely flexible on what the aliens look like, as long as it's science based, but the big stumbling block I'm having is that there's nothing to build with.

I've considered having them secrete something that helps, like balloon spiders for example, but even that only gets me so far. And as far as the metallic-hydrogen core deep within the planet, even if one could manage to mine that somehow, how would that help?

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