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ClamdestineBoyster posted:It's like 20 minutes until they do the orbital burn yeah? yeah it's coming up
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Hector Beerlioz posted:What if it crashes right away Well still learn something. 
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SplitSoul posted:Where are the pretty pictures? 12 more minutes but it should have done it already - there's a 30-40 minute travel time for the data.
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This is like watching car racing. Interesting but pretty boring unless something bad happens. Not sure which one I'm rooting for.
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Outrail posted:This is like watching car racing. Interesting but pretty boring unless something bad happens. Not sure which one I'm rooting for. Dale Earnhardt is going to crash into Jupiter. Check for the little red spot next to the big red spot.
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jupiter is a piece of poo poo what ever happened to pluto?
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reallivedinosaur posted:jupiter is a piece of poo poo what ever happened to pluto? its about to crash into your fucken dome
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will this tell us if carl sagans theory about flying jupiter "floaters" was true or not???
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www posted:will this tell us if carl sagans theory about flying jupiter "floaters" was true or not??? I'll leave a floater on Jupiter. Man, bedtime sucks, the livestream is *RIVETING*.
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Parallax Scroll posted:Live broadcast of final Jupiter approach and entering orbit you're telling me we can put a lego man on jupiter but we can't make a video player that hides the fullscreen interface and mouse pointer?
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This is pretty awesome imo. Kerbal upgrades looking good.
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WOOOO they're melting a very expensive thing on another planet
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Watching the live stream. This owns
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Don't tell me it takes all these people to fly a shapes hip, what are they all even doing with those computers
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Looking forward to Junocam.
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I liked Juno Ellen Paige is funny did you know she played trinity in some episodes of trailer park boys?
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where it's at now, different angle
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read the book, btw gbs
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same angle, zoomed out. current position e: don't know how to embed it but here's the video of jupiter's moons taken during approach a few days ago https://gfycat.com/EquatorialBigHaddock a shiny rock fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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shoophobo posted:I will be monitoring this mission and orbital insertion from my command center. Are you rocking 5 generators just to stay online?
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Less than a minute of time dilation. 
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That's cool we're getting another spacecraft to check out Jupiter but why hasn't there been a spacecraft or rover sent to Europa yet? We need a rover to explore Europa because there might be an ocean and possibly life there drat it! 
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spasticColon posted:That's cool we're getting another spacecraft to check out Jupiter but why hasn't there been a spacecraft or rover sent to Europa yet? NASA has a mission to Europa in the works. Going to launch on an SLS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Multiple-Flyby_Mission
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Happy Hedonist posted:Looking forward to Junocam. Hey, psst...Happy Hed, psst... over here quick... *discreetly hands plain wrapped package over to you under desk while no one's watching*... that's just for if in case you may need a reminder at any stage later on, or whenever, you'll have it on hand for a quick reference guide to look up whatever it may be that you're thinking about. *gives a quick nod, taps nose with finger while mouthing words "mum's the word", and wanders off* 
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I hope they get some extra-credit shots of Jupiter's pizza-faced little brother, Io.
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Parallax Scroll posted:We ran out of nuclear materials to power spacecraft, so we had to use solar panels for this one instead. No solar powered craft has gone this far away from the sun before, so the panels have to be fuckin huge! What's being done to fix this?!!? What is it were out of?!
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Plutonium 238. It can be used to make power that lasts for years without taking up too much space, apparently by simply wrapping it up and using the heat it gives off. Read this: etalian posted:This was a interesting article.
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We have just recently started making more Pu-238. Going to take some time to ramp up production though.
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Oak Ridge is ramping up to 2.5 kg per year of production, so that's 2 to 4 years to produce enough for a mission (depending on what the mission is) and 1 year if they use that new mechanical generator they're working on. e: double checked. it's 1.5 kg per year. Germstore fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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mmhmm maybe we could shoot out a chimpanzee into outer space and have it trained to pedal the bike hooked up to a generator and with a lifetime supply of canned beans on board but then we'd have to teach a monkey how to open cans, and I think that not even NASA could pull that off
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A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:mmhmm maybe we could shoot out a chimpanzee into outer space and have it trained to pedal the bike hooked up to a generator and with a lifetime supply of canned beans on board but then we'd have to teach a monkey how to open cans, and I think that not even NASA could pull that off it would be more efficient to send the monkey up with a steam engine to generate the power. that way all you need to do is teach the monkey to shovel coal
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Germstore posted:Oak Ridge is ramping up to 2.5 kg per year of production, so that's 2 to 4 years to produce enough for a mission (depending on what the mission is) and 1 year if they use that new mechanical generator they're working on. Are there other uses outside of space travel? I mean for 238, not 239 (I learned about the difference thanks to this thread and am feeling pretty smart right now)? Anything nationally, or even internationally, useful for expensive materials seems a much easier sell than "we need it for our space rocket". Also good on the USA for doing this, there is no loving way we could afford to do it in Europe right now. spud fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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