JUNO to Jupiter

Beeker

10 days to go to the launch of NASA next flight to Jupiter. JUNO will launch on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on Friday August 5th at 16:34 Irish time.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html

tricky D

Stay away from Europa!

Zubeneschamali

tricky D wrote: »

Stay away from Europa!

Agreed, attempt no landings there.

Plug

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Agreed, attempt no landings there.

Whys that lads?

Skyknight

Do I have to be the one who says it?:rolleyes: (Is)Something wonderful is about to happen(?):rolleyes It's a reference to Auther C Clarke's 2010 Odyssey Two. The final message from Discovery reads
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE

Thanks for the heads up Beeker.

CO19

Is Europa the one with all the volcanoes on it ?

Skyknight

CO19 wrote: »

Is Europa the one with all the volcanoes on it ?

CO19,
You're thinking of Io, who's interior is being constantly stretched by the tidal forces of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, and above all Jupiter itself. Europa is the next moon out, and is slightly smaller than the Earth's moon and is thought, to have liquid water ocean underneath an icy crust.

Beeker

tricky D wrote: »

Stay away from Europa!

:D;)

Rubecula

tricky D wrote: »

Stay away from Europa!

And if you see a great black spot, be afraid, be very afraid. In fact try to keep up if you see me running.

Plug

tricky D wrote: »

Stay away from Europa!

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Agreed, attempt no landings there.

Skyknight wrote: »

Do I have to be the one who says it?:rolleyes: (Is)Something wonderful is about to happen(?):rolleyes It's a reference to Auther C Clarke's 2010 Odyssey Two. The final message from Discovery reads
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE

Thanks for the heads up Beeker.

Beeker wrote: »

:D;)

Rubecula wrote: »

And if you see a great black spot, be afraid, be very afraid. In fact try to keep up if you see me running.

namloc1980

The JUNO spacecraft is going to carry three LEGO figurines to Jupiter. One of Galileo, one of the God Jupiter and one of his wife Juno!!



Launch is scheduled for this Friday!

Link

Beeker

namloc1980 wrote: »

The JUNO spacecraft is going to carry three LEGO figurines to Jupiter. One of Galileo, one of the God Jupiter and one of his wife Juno!!



Launch is scheduled for this Friday!

Link

Cool always great to help inspire the Kids to take an interest in science:)

irishh_bob

how long will it take to get there ?

who steers it in case it takes a wrong turn and ends up 40 million miles away in saturn ?

what fuels this flying tin can ?

Turtwig

This is probably the mission that excites the most. I really want a closer look at Jupiter.:D

Beeker

irishh_bob wrote: »

how long will it take to get there ?

5 years

irishh_bob wrote: »

who steers it in case it takes a wrong turn and ends up 40 million miles away in saturn ?

Issac Newton:) Or at least his laws of motion. Point in the right direction, fire you engine and five yeard latter you arrive. No turns on the way but small course corrections can be carried out if required.

irishh_bob wrote: »

what fuels this flying tin can ?

Solar panels provide power

Beeker

Launch due at 16:34 this evening.

Turtwig

T-4 mins, on the ten minute hold.:)

Turtwig

Boat inside the launch danger area and concern over the Helium system charge cycle. Still in hold.

Skyknight

1613 is the new launch time

tricky D

15 minutes then so

Turtwig

Still a No Go.

30 Mins left in the launch window..

Skyknight

tricky D wrote: »

15 minutes then so

New T 00:00 is 17:25.

Turtwig

Pick up off the hold at 17:21.
Launching at 17:25.

Skyknight

Looks like their all cleared to light the candle.

Turtwig

And the count is back on woot!

Turtwig

Aww that's such a peaceful and graceful launch. Almost like a VTOL hover.:D
Beautiful!

tricky D

Lovely, so far so good!

Beeker

Great start for Juno:)

thecommander

Hurray for a successful launch.

http://iwatchedjunolaunch.com/

Turtwig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYp5p2oL51g

Edit : Just saw this comment.

These NASA jerks are so dumb. Look how much time they waste by going the scenic route. A straight line is the shortest distance between two points not some crazy loopy elliptic path.

When I need to go to the store to buy a TV dinner I don't drive from my trailer in MS to Texas then pass back by my trailer and then go to the convenience store down the road do I?

This is why we have no more money in the country because NASA stole our jobs.

My response.

Beeker

Malty_T wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYp5p2oL51g

Edit : Just saw this comment.

My response.

:D:D Love it...................Redneck {Redtop reader}alert:D

Plug

Malty_T wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYp5p2oL51g

Edit : Just saw this comment.

My response.

Ahhhhh so thats why they call it rocket science!

Turtwig

Plug wrote: »

Ahhhhh so thats why they call it rocket science!

No here is why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2CZoWe02vs

Calibos

I think when you jumped for joy after the successful launch you must have banged your Malty and damaged the satire centre of your brain........or is the Poe Cortex of my brain tingling?

TV dinners....trailer park.....but he knows the word elliptical???

Turtwig

Calibos wrote: »

I think when you jumped for joy after the successful launch you must have banged your Malty and damaged the satire centre of your brain........or is the Poe Cortex of my brain tingling?

TV dinners....trailer park.....but he knows the word elliptical???

I thought it might be a poe and I sincerely hope it was, but alas, you can't know for certain either way.

Beeker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouNiZCw4bDU

CO19

Any web sites where we can track this like we can the ISS or other satellite's ?

namloc1980

CO19 wrote: »

Any web sites where we can track this like we can the ISS or other satellite's ?

NASA have a cool program called Eyes in the Solar System. You can track planetary bodies and spacecraft and see where they are at any given time, past, present and future!

Link

OldRio

Arriving tonight. Some journey.

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-juno-mission-t-minus-two-days-from-jupiter

rolion

Just to remind that this thread started 5 (five) years ago...nice adventure and hope & pray tonight for a happy ending journey !

Pat Dunne

Nice revive on this topic OldRio.
Most recent photo taken on the 29th June at 3.3 million miles, before power down. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA20706

Leroy42

Don't claim to have even a basic understanding of all this but I think it is incredible what we humans are achieving in the last few years.

Feel privileged to be alive to see all this. Whether it is successful or not, to even get this far is mindnubbingly brilliant.

Skyknight

Orbital insertion burn cutoff ...... JUNO has arrived. Orbital duration I believe is 53 days

OldRio

A log of the event. Some amazing facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2016/jul/05/nasas-juno-spacecraft-arrives-at-jupiter-live

cowboyBuilder

So will Juno be taking any photos ? or just sending back numerical data ?

Avatar MIA

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

So will Juno be taking any photos ? or just sending back numerical data ?

Photos coming back as numerical data

Skyknight

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

So will Juno be taking any photos ? or just sending back numerical data ?

Instruments are due to turned on in a couple of days. I think NASA are look at a date at around the end of August before they have both pictures and data, as we are now in the first of (I believe) the two initial 53 day orbits.

Maximus Alexander

They put a camera on it just to make people like us happy. They don't actually need it for the mission. :pac:

JupiterKid

Great to see that Juno has successfully entered orbit around Jupiter. I also look forward to the images. I think pictures are important for public outreach.

Capt'n Midnight

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

They put a camera on it just to make people like us happy. They don't actually need it for the mission. :pac:

And the radiation is expected to render it unusable within 8 orbits. It doesn't have the zoom needed for looking at the moons in detail.


I'm still upset that if it wasn't for the delays to the Shuttle that Galileo could have had a ring side seat to Shoemaker-Levy 9, that and saving Skylab. *sobs* *starts rants* Dynasoar meant they could have had the X-37 50 years earlier. .... [/RANT]

Rubecula

And the ancients had railways and steam engines and computers of a sort..... if they had put them together we could have been visiting the stars by now.