JUNO to Jupiter

Plug · 05-08-2011 06:06PM

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 · 05-08-2011 06:30PM

Plug wrote: »

Ahhhhh so thats why they call it rocket science!

No here is why.

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

Calibos · 05-08-2011 10:33PM

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 · 05-08-2011 10:45PM

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 · 06-08-2011 07:18AM

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

CO19 · 06-08-2011 01:34PM

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

namloc1980 · 06-08-2011 04:04PM

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 · 04-07-2016 12:31PM

Arriving tonight. Some journey.

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

rolion · 04-07-2016 09:31PM

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

Pat Dunne · 04-07-2016 10:40PM

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 · 04-07-2016 10:59PM

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 · 05-07-2016 03:56AM

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

OldRio · 05-07-2016 06:40AM

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 · 05-07-2016 08:41AM

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

Avatar MIA · 05-07-2016 09:04AM

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

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

Photos coming back as numerical data

Skyknight · 05-07-2016 09:26AM

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 · 05-07-2016 09:29AM

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

JupiterKid · 05-07-2016 05:38PM

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 · 06-07-2016 09:48AM

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 · 10-07-2016 09:12PM

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.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-07-2016 10:09PM

Rubecula wrote: »

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.

Unfortunately not. The big difference of the Industrial Revolution was that there were more well off people.

Dark ages inventions like crop rotation, better horse harness and better plough meant less people were needed to grow food. Later on spectacles were invented and clothes became so cheap that not everyone wore the same set all their lives. So finally you have the conditions ready for printing, cheap paper from rags and people who would learn to read because they'd be able to read later in life.

So printed books , information explosion.

Many inventions only happen when the technology they depend on becomes available.
Edison and Swann patented the light bulb at the same time.
Bell patented the telephone about three hours before Elisha Gray, but of course it was Antonio Meucci who invented it or was it ...
Konrad Zuse invented the computer. As did all the other groups.

As for Radar ? US, British Comonwealth, France , Germany , Japan, Italy and the Neatherlands all had working systems before WWII.

Despite all the secrecy of the others Hungry started developing radar in 1942 and had a working microwave system in 1944. A modified version was able to do a moon-bounce in 1946. http://hackaday.com/2013/11/19/retrotechtacular-zoltan-bays-moon-bounce-coulometer-signal-amplifier/

Contrast that to Imperial China which suppressed a lot of inventions in an attempt to keep the status quo.

Myrddin · 11-07-2016 02:04PM

^^ I'm off to play Civilization 5 after reading that

Pat Dunne · 28-08-2016 11:53AM

Lets hope for some great photos and some interesting readings, after Juno's fly-by some 4,500 km above the clouds of Jupiter yesterday.

Will be keeping a special eye on the NASA website over the coming days.

_Tombstone_ · 04-09-2016 07:58PM

Pics/VID are up.

JupiterKid · 12-09-2016 05:36AM

And so Juno sends back stunning images of Jupiter's North polar region. So many small swirling storms and hardly recognisable from the familiar cloud bands we see on the planet. I am very hopeful that Juno will will answer a lot of questions we have about my namesake planet!:)

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_Tombstone_ · 12-09-2016 11:02AM

http://spacecoastdaily.com/2016/09/nasas-juno-spacecraft-sends-back-first-ever-images-of-jupiters-north-pole/

Capt'n Midnight · 28-10-2016 11:01PM

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-mission-exits-safe-mode-performs-trim-maneuver/

NASA's Juno Mission Exits Safe Mode, Performs Trim Maneuver
..
Juno will perform its next science flyby of Jupiter on Dec. 11,

JupiterKid · 12-12-2016 05:53PM

Juno has just had a successful third perijove encounter, passing the giant Jupiter closely. This follows it going into safe mode at the last perijove encounter.

Pics and other data to follow soon!:)

namloc1980 · 29-05-2017 05:05PM

Some lovely images from Juno:

Juno captured the Jovian rings from inside, anyone spot Orion??

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namloc1980 · 09-06-2017 11:00PM

Breathtaking views of Jupiter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kQbTBt418o

JUNO to Jupiter

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