I'm not a grown man but yes, it makes me cry. It's not really crying tbh. I feel this weird emptiness within me while imagining the cosmic vastness and suddenly my vision gets blurry and I realise- I'm happily sad.
NASA is doing another Europa probe, called the Europa Clipper. Despite not having launched yet, it is scheduled to arrive at Europa first. The two missions will be at Jupiter together for 18+ months.
@@toadtws Funnily enough, JUICE and Europa Clipper kind of began life as a joint mission between NASA and ESA under the name Europa Jupiter System Mission (although Europa Clipper was an earlier proposal in 1997, but it was rejected at the time), with a Europa and a Ganymede orbiter component. It was proposed in 2008 and effectively canceled in 2011 due to budget issues. But ESA decided to make JUICE based on the Ganymede orbiter which was their part in the joint mission. And then in 2015, the Europa Clipper mission got the go-ahead and funding
@@kukuc96 Aaah, that explains why the missions have so much overlap! It almost feels like how Hollywood studios hear about an interesting script and rush out a competitor (Armageddon/Deep Impact; The Prestige/The Illusionist) so the other one doesn't get all the revenue for moviegoers interested in {genre}. But in this case, I love the way the missions will actually complement each other.
The fact that so many wonderful discoveries could be made also comes with a cost and not just a monetary one. Many people speding basically their careers planning, building, stressing over and eventually saying goodbye to a probe that could eventually prove that livable conditions are present on another stellar body. The fact that the spacecraft is already on its way but I for example can't enjoy its findings until I'm 45 years old saddens me. Makes me both curse our short lifespans and also appreciate that that is what drives many people to quick decision making while forcing careful considerations. After all, this probe has the hopes of thousands of engineers, scientists and educators and the dreams of millions riding on it. IT CAN'T GO WRONG. 🥺
Well, I'll be 80, so this exploration may be one of the last I witness. It's important to me on many levels. I'm certainly hoping there are no mission ending problems, now that getting into space has gone well. 👍
I enjoy your very well presented videos and find them interesting and educational. The JUICE mission is an exciting exploration for extraterresterial life. I was born before the space age and hope that I get to see the outcomes of JUICE! Twelve years is a long time to wait for me. I'll be nearly 80 years old by then! 🤔😲
Well at least you’ll get to see two moon landings in your life and maybe confirmation that we aren’t alone in the solar system you’ve had a good set of experiences so far!
Europa's already certified amazing - no need to wait! From the light/poetic style of Carl Sagan in Cosmos, to the statistical findings of Voyager, there's already a wide range available in terms of how you want to look further. Europa is fascinating, and carries a ton of promise. Even though the outer moons get very little love, there's still enough info out to occupy an human lifetime. Enjoy!
Yeah I think ESA has a serious publicity problem, especially compared to NASA. I mean they rarely ever get mentiond while every time NASA anounces they gonna buy a new fax machine an army of youtubers covers it. (That's obviously a joke, but still kind of true...)
I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me fall asleep for as long as I can remember and I want to appreciate the Graphics too. Astrum is art and should be treated and respected as such
As someone who spent 40 years seeing Pluto as a dot and then a smattering of pixels and then a multi-coloured smudge, that was the most exciting mission for me. This one is right behind it just because of the mystery of the ice.
I didn't notice my mouth open while watching the whole video. Such an amazing sophisticated work beyond my limited imagination! The vast world of the universe sometimes makes me feel like "Is this life even real?" Thank you for the very informative video and all the engineers working on this project! I've been longing for the discovery of the mysterious ocean in Europa for years. Just some more years won't matter much. Space missions are always amazing!
could be a forward planetary protection problem. There are no stable orbits there, so if something breaks: it's going into the ice, hot and dirty. The requirement is no bacteria replication for 10,000 years. While they can clean the outside, the inside they can't, and with no atmosphere, it's getting cracked open when it hist Europa, and that RTG is going to make a nice warm puddle for 80 years.
This is amazing! When I was a kid I learned about these moons and became super interested into them. Is sucks that I’m gonna be in my 30s before we find out more about these moons but better now than putting the mission off later. Hopefully in the near future we will have a better and faster way to get satellites and rockets across the solar system
Excente vídeo!! É um regozijo ver o dinheiro a ser gasto em ciência, em conhecimento e exploração espacial... em vez de ser gasto em armas e guerras! Há sempre um retorno gratificante! A missão JUICE ...foi o culminar da curiosidade, de uma cooperação...o trabalho minucioso e estudado ao pormenor de todos os envolvidos, e que partiu numa viagem de 8 anos... que esperamos bem sucedida e espantar-nos com os resultados!! Sucesso e todos ficámos a ganhar, dar mundos novos ao nosso mundo ...é incrível!! Que surpresas nos irá revelar?!
Just imagine we find (signs of) life there.... I'm 51 years old now and I'm still hoping to be around when evidence of extraterrestrial life is discovered.
Discovering the moons of Jupiter revealed the structure of the solar system to Galileo. Will exploring them reveal the presence of life somewhere other than Earth? Surely, this is the most eagerly anticipated mission humanity has yet undertaken.
Thanks Alex! These destinations are going to be vital, absolutely essential to the exploration of our solar system, so we'd best get to knowing them now! We need those resources, yes, but how amazing it would be to find life just plugging away on any of these worlds?!?!
Well done re-editing and putting this together!! Stay put the 2 hour long full documentary about the Making of Juice that ESA will be putting out in October! With *a lot* of new and extra materials never seen and heard!
Europe should drop its inferiority complex in space exploration and start launching crewed missions by themselves. ESA has the knowledge, technology, resources and manpower to do great things in space.
Let's go JUICE! Europa and Enceladus have always been my favorite moons and objects of imagination for potential alien life, alien ecosystems.... All in our very own Solar system! Bon voyage JUICE!
We (Nammo) built the Fill & Drain Valves for this - we do a lot of well known projects (4 x Non return valves) just lost on the iSpace lunar lander for one. Well proud to be a part of these missions 🙂
I'm excited about mission goin' well. I want to know if their oceans under the ice and what's in them. Thank you, astrum! Also, listen to a sci-fi audiobook series called The sojourn you will love it!
However, they are actually still “competing” in a manner of sorts against NASA and their other contemporaries. Cooperating and competing can take place simultaneously.
ESA is doing it right. Even though we can visit planets/moons which are closer to us, the truth is there are better discoveries further out. ESA is playing the long game. While others focus on what is close, they focus on what is far. I think amazing discoveries will come out of these missions. The only annoyance is the dependancy on solar panes for far out missions. Voyager1 and 2 showed us the benefits of using nuclear power.
Really awesome of you to make a video about this mission. I really hope that this probe will definitely rule out that Europe and/or Ganymede has a subsurface ocean. Excited for this one!
Not to toot my own horn but it's very much a mission I'm covering! Although I would agree even as a fellow spacetuber, I'm surprised that not everyone in team space is covering this. I know myself and the man himself Scott Manley are providing regular updates so it's great to see you are too!
Thank you for these. They feal like the true heir to Cosmo's legacy. I just found your channel and cant stop watching ...serioualy its almost 2:00AM and I cant stop watching these. This reminds me if the Cosmos episode "Travellers Tales" where Carl Sagan explaines the creation and vision of the Vouager Probes.
Space exploration is probably the best training exercise in patience.... Every technological advancement is a small step in the macroscopic search for knowledge...
everyone only cares about NASA and Elon Musks SpaceX with their showoffs while ESA is actually sending important stuff up there that actually help with scientific reasearch :D
I'd say I get 20 NASA did X videos recommended for every ESA did Y so I think it's kinda true. Obwohl ich nur 15km con Lampoldshausen weg wohne und die Test hören und sehen kann ;)
The amount of research and idk where you get all the footage but it's really nice to see these things before they leave and the work that goes into them. This is all kind of unintentionally hidden from public view in labs and only because of your channel are we able to see it. 8-12 years is a looooong time to wait. Hopefully it can swing by Rosa on it's way!
The last time the moons were studied in detail was the galileo mission. This mission is a huge upgrade to the former (Keep in mind that galileo had technical problems). So if you are starting studying astronomy, you can specialize in the jovian system...
It’s so exciting to see us finally go back to Jupiter to explore the moons we’ve needed a mission for so long and europa clipper should be the most exciting. We just need to get the titan explorer drone in the works and I’ll be happy. If we find shale oil deposits there better believe US is heading there.
I wonder - if they had used an atomic battery like with the Voyager Probes, how much weight for inefficient solar panels could have been saved to the benefit of additional sensors and instruments...
The problem with nuclear RTGs used on missions like the ones used on Voyager is that they are incredibly expensive compared to much cheaper solar panels. That's why NASA used solar panels for its Juno Jupiter orbiter and will use solar panels on its upcoming Europa Clipper mission. They were able to use the money they saved on scientific instruments or on other missions. Also, solar panels produce more power than RTGs. For example, the ISS, which uses more power than any other object launched into space, is completely solar powered. There are proposals to make nuclear reactors that could outdo solar (e.g., sterling reactors) but they are years away. Generally, RTGs are used when solar isn't readily available (e.g., the surface of Mars where there are dust storms and it's nighttime 50% of the time) or the light levels are too low (e.g., at Saturn and beyond).
@@bbartky how expensive is it exactly? Once the tech has been develloped what drives up the cost of subsequent RTG enough that it significantly impacts a $2B project? At face value the tech doesnt seem incredibly complicated. On the other hand we're running out of plutonium 238 since its not longer produced at scale
@@bbartky Well Its Jupiter and not Saturn, but still as said in the video the solar panels need to be several times as large as they would have to be on Earth or Mars. And this then quickly becomes very costly as well, especially considering they have to be controlled, rotated, folded/unfolded, protected during inner solar system flybys, so its a lot more points of failure with them than with a RTG. Personally I think they worry about the PR issue more than cost. The public does not really like nuclear so much and the idea that there will be plutoium on a rocket that could explode or there could be some uncontrolled re-entry of the thing scares people.
The standard MMRTG simply might not be powerful enough for this mission. The solar panels on JUICE produce almost 8 times the power of one of those standard RTGs, even out at Jupiter.
As ever, you've done an incredible job on this topic. I don't comment on every video, but I watch them all and they are all fascinating and so well communicated!
What a testament to what people can accomplish when we all work together for a common purpose! Well done, everyone involved in this achievement; I'm looking forward to seeing what they discover!
Wow NOBODY was talking about this mission! Im so happy its already in space on its way as i type this! I cant wait for the results if everything goes well.
Its amazing the amount of so many different companies comprised of so many employees all having their hands part of this project and it actually working. This is one case where too many chefs in the kitchen wasnt a bad thing lol
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE..." We have been warned !!! ;-) But Seriously, I'm interested to see what is discovered!
Can someone explain how/why ESA JUICE makes a gravity assist swing from Venus, but I thought Venus and Mercury are both very difficult to visit because they lay closer to the sun.
apparently getting to orbit of Venus is not as difficult as that of Mercury. A lot of mission to Venus happened in 1960-1980 Galileo, Cassini, Messenger, and other probe also maked a gravity assist swing from Venus it's just that after Venus was discovered to have the hellish atmosphere and landscape, the interest went elsewhere
Nah, planet mercury is the only one hard, venus isn’t so bad, you see, planet Venus is the closest planet to distance to us so yeah, meanwhile planet mercury is way harder because it’s further away, sometimes more then mars to us Actually it’s easier to go to venus then mars as it requires less fuel Also, Juice is a very heavy spacecraft, 5 tons in weight, and thus requires way more Delta-V (the amount of speed to give) No, it’s not because it reach’s beyond max weight and now rocket can’t lift it, no, it’s just it needs enough speed in order to reach certain planets And thus, instead of using larger rockets, they use gravity assists in order to carry the heavy spacecraft towards Jupiter with minimal fuel consumed in order to spend its fuels exploring its moons and eventually orbit Ganymede
Thus even a lot of planetary missions spacecrafts use Venus/earth as gravity assists to reach planet mercury like messenger probes or Jupiter and so on
Very exciting, and love the name 😎 since sending such a large craft and taking so long to get there would’ve been nice to have a small lander to melt it’s way thru ice and give us a real look
Amazing what has been achieved since 1946 with regards to space launches ..... first photos taken from space were taken on October 24, 1946 on the sub-orbital U.S.-launched V-2 rocket (flight #13) at White Sands Missile Range.
hello. why do you have swastikas in your title? are you a Hindu nationalist? perhaps you are an Indian Muslim that likes to mix symbolic metaphors. perhaps your belief system is non of the previous. could you please clarify?
The hooked cross is an ancient symbol, used by different cultures. Really only in the Western culture does it have extreme negative connotations since the middle of the 20th century.
@@winstonmcintosher2702 they are talking about the dominion payout. I'd just say, stop using electronic voting systems, like a real country. Then there wouldnt be any doubt in the reliability of your results. It's worth noting that the democrats have said he same thing in at least two elections I can remember. But they seem to be aloud to without court cases.
@@curiositycloset2359 oh so just stop using machines to count the votes? So how would you suggest 350 million votes be sorted? All "real" countries use this kind of tech
Outside of Europe and/or outside the countries participating in ESA, you're unlikely to have heard about Juice unless you are a huge space exploration enthousiast with dozens of subscriptions, or following whatever space exploration related news medium. Even I, living in the Netherlands, an active ESA member with two (former) active astronauts didn't see or read much about it in the media. I expect NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission, planned for launch in October 2024, will get significant more media attention...
I thought it was especially cool that they tested the camera from the ground on Earth by pointing it at Jupiter and its moons.
Tell me I’m not the only grown man who tears up when he hears about human exploration and advancement.😅
Far from it friend
You're not alone buddy, and there's no shame in that, only pride =D
You're not alone, friend
I'm not a grown man but yes, it makes me cry.
It's not really crying tbh. I feel this weird emptiness within me while imagining the cosmic vastness and suddenly my vision gets blurry and I realise- I'm happily sad.
A shared experience, my friend
much respect to ESA for this project. Havent heard much talk on Europa from NASA or SpaceX
NASA is doing another Europa probe, called the Europa Clipper. Despite not having launched yet, it is scheduled to arrive at Europa first. The two missions will be at Jupiter together for 18+ months.
SpaceX is rocket company, they don't do science...
Uh JPL is making europa clipper, we're talkin a lot about europa.
Also juice is focusing more on ganymede.
@@toadtws Funnily enough, JUICE and Europa Clipper kind of began life as a joint mission between NASA and ESA under the name Europa Jupiter System Mission (although Europa Clipper was an earlier proposal in 1997, but it was rejected at the time), with a Europa and a Ganymede orbiter component.
It was proposed in 2008 and effectively canceled in 2011 due to budget issues. But ESA decided to make JUICE based on the Ganymede orbiter which was their part in the joint mission. And then in 2015, the Europa Clipper mission got the go-ahead and funding
@@kukuc96 Aaah, that explains why the missions have so much overlap! It almost feels like how Hollywood studios hear about an interesting script and rush out a competitor (Armageddon/Deep Impact; The Prestige/The Illusionist) so the other one doesn't get all the revenue for moviegoers interested in {genre}. But in this case, I love the way the missions will actually complement each other.
8 years from now, I will have this video to thank for sparking my excitement for this amazing project
I commented something very similar when Osiris rex launched, really cool to see it through (almost back, I think it returns late 24)
@@jadenantal1652 Accourding to NASA it will return sept 24 2023.
@@JacobBax nice to know I was wrong, that's only a few months out
The fact that so many wonderful discoveries could be made also comes with a cost and not just a monetary one. Many people speding basically their careers planning, building, stressing over and eventually saying goodbye to a probe that could eventually prove that livable conditions are present on another stellar body. The fact that the spacecraft is already on its way but I for example can't enjoy its findings until I'm 45 years old saddens me. Makes me both curse our short lifespans and also appreciate that that is what drives many people to quick decision making while forcing careful considerations. After all, this probe has the hopes of thousands of engineers, scientists and educators and the dreams of millions riding on it. IT CAN'T GO WRONG. 🥺
Well, I'll be 80, so this exploration may be one of the last I witness. It's important to me on many levels.
I'm certainly hoping there are no mission ending problems, now that getting into space has gone well. 👍
and with the problems with the antennae, etc., on this vehicle that stress must be peaking about now
I enjoy your very well presented videos and find them interesting and educational.
The JUICE mission is an exciting exploration for extraterresterial life. I was born before the space age and hope that I get to see the outcomes of JUICE! Twelve years is a long time to wait for me.
I'll be nearly 80 years old by then! 🤔😲
Well at least you’ll get to see two moon landings in your life and maybe confirmation that we aren’t alone in the solar system you’ve had a good set of experiences so far!
At 73, I'm hopin we both get to see this happen.
OJ Simpson can't believe his luck. After all that happened, they've named a spacecraft after him.
@@skarecrowster I didn't make that connection I guess because of my age, 73, so OJ came along much later in my life to notice.
I really hope I get to see the results of juice and I’m 54
I’m excited to see more information about Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto I can’t wait 😁
Same here😊😊😊
Europa's already certified amazing - no need to wait!
From the light/poetic style of Carl Sagan in Cosmos, to the statistical findings of Voyager, there's already a wide range available in terms of how you want to look further. Europa is fascinating, and carries a ton of promise.
Even though the outer moons get very little love, there's still enough info out to occupy an human lifetime. Enjoy!
I can wait. Those moons are not disappearing anytime soon. 😄
Thank you for covering this! More people should know about the JUICE mission!
They will when it reaches it's destination. Even more people will know about it when it finds something ground-breaking.
Yeah I think ESA has a serious publicity problem, especially compared to NASA. I mean they rarely ever get mentiond while every time NASA anounces they gonna buy a new fax machine an army of youtubers covers it. (That's obviously a joke, but still kind of true...)
I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me fall asleep for as long as I can remember and I want to appreciate the Graphics too. Astrum is art and should be treated and respected as such
I thought i was the only one. It's so nice to fall asleep with
And I thought I was the only one too! Good night
True… this guys voice can make the most stressed out person drift away in moments 👍👍👍
Astrum sleepers unite 🤝💪
As someone who spent 40 years seeing Pluto as a dot and then a smattering of pixels and then a multi-coloured smudge, that was the most exciting mission for me. This one is right behind it just because of the mystery of the ice.
Ditto!
Thanks to Astrum for this video
We will hear from juice again 8 years later
I've been waiting twenty plus years for this to go up. Just a shame they didn't include any of the driller submarines. Only eight more years to go.
I didn't notice my mouth open while watching the whole video. Such an amazing sophisticated work beyond my limited imagination! The vast world of the universe sometimes makes me feel like "Is this life even real?" Thank you for the very informative video and all the engineers working on this project! I've been longing for the discovery of the mysterious ocean in Europa for years. Just some more years won't matter much. Space missions are always amazing!
Holy damn. I cant even fathom the crazy math that goes into something like this.
Cant wait to see Europa. Hope i still be around. So i posted this 20.04.23. See you guys after few years.
Good luck, I believe in you!
could be a forward planetary protection problem. There are no stable orbits there, so if something breaks: it's going into the ice, hot and dirty. The requirement is no bacteria replication for 10,000 years. While they can clean the outside, the inside they can't, and with no atmosphere, it's getting cracked open when it hist Europa, and that RTG is going to make a nice warm puddle for 80 years.
We will meet back here in a decade.
Thank you Alex for the very informative video about JUICE. This is right up there with James Webb.
Babe, new astrum video!
I built and launched this in Kerbal Space Program in my way of making more people talk about it. Great content from Astrum as always !
This is amazing! When I was a kid I learned about these moons and became super interested into them. Is sucks that I’m gonna be in my 30s before we find out more about these moons but better now than putting the mission off later.
Hopefully in the near future we will have a better and faster way to get satellites and rockets across the solar system
Dude, I'll be 50 in 2031 😟
Excente vídeo!! É um regozijo ver o dinheiro a ser gasto em ciência, em conhecimento e exploração espacial... em vez de ser gasto em armas e guerras! Há sempre um retorno gratificante! A missão JUICE ...foi o culminar da curiosidade, de uma cooperação...o trabalho minucioso e estudado ao pormenor de todos os envolvidos, e que partiu numa viagem de 8 anos... que esperamos bem sucedida e espantar-nos com os resultados!! Sucesso e todos ficámos a ganhar, dar mundos novos ao nosso mundo ...é incrível!! Que surpresas nos irá revelar?!
Another excellent video, thank you for covering this
Excellent content! Absolutely one of my favorite channels on TH-cam
Love this behind the scenes type video to show in more detail what it takes to create these amazing space craft. Thank you!
Just imagine we find (signs of) life there.... I'm 51 years old now and I'm still hoping to be around when evidence of extraterrestrial life is discovered.
Discovering the moons of Jupiter revealed the structure of the solar system to Galileo. Will exploring them reveal the presence of life somewhere other than Earth? Surely, this is the most eagerly anticipated mission humanity has yet undertaken.
Thanks for the video 👍
Thank you so much for your time and effort bringing us these informative videos 👍🏼
Very exciting! Thank you for the video!
Thanks Alex! These destinations are going to be vital, absolutely essential to the exploration of our solar system, so we'd best get to knowing them now! We need those resources, yes, but how amazing it would be to find life just plugging away on any of these worlds?!?!
este tipo de videos hace que espere el futuro con mas ganas que antes, muchas gracias.
Thanks for the update
Well done re-editing and putting this together!! Stay put the 2 hour long full documentary about the Making of Juice that ESA will be putting out in October! With *a lot* of new and extra materials never seen and heard!
Nice representation of what we can achieve collectively. Can't wait to see the results of this miission. Go ESA
Europe should drop its inferiority complex in space exploration and start launching crewed missions by themselves. ESA has the knowledge, technology, resources and manpower to do great things in space.
@@pragma5282 Europe is not giving much money into such projects.investing money in infrastructure rather than space
One of my professors mentioned that a few of them from my university were working on this project. Awesome stuff!
Where is your university
@@methamphetamineaddict5217 Aberystwyth, in Wales
Let's go JUICE! Europa and Enceladus have always been my favorite moons and objects of imagination for potential alien life, alien ecosystems.... All in our very own Solar system! Bon voyage JUICE!
Thank you for another beautiful, hope-inspiring video 💖
The Expanse is very slowly becoming reality
Thank you for the high quality videos and content you provide. It's much appreciated.
Great video, Alex...👍
We (Nammo) built the Fill & Drain Valves for this - we do a lot of well known projects (4 x Non return valves) just lost on the iSpace lunar lander for one. Well proud to be a part of these missions 🙂
This needs more coverage. Had to go looking for it.
Considering the close encounters are years away, it's hard to get juiced up about this mission - yet.
You are not the only man who tears up!! Well done!!!
I just hope I love to see this mission completed!!
I'm excited about mission goin' well. I want to know if their oceans under the ice and what's in them. Thank you, astrum! Also, listen to a sci-fi audiobook series called The sojourn you will love it!
To me, this just makes it clear that the true path to advancement is cooperation, not competition.
That's why NASA will always be better than SpaceX.
@@sulijoo spacex works with NASA
Cooperation isn’t profitable though, and so yet another capitalist lie hinders the advancement of science and mankind.
However, they are actually still “competing” in a manner of sorts against NASA and their other contemporaries. Cooperating and competing can take place simultaneously.
@@sulijoo the irony of your comment is hilarious. NASA wins the competition because they focus on cooperation?
ESA is doing it right. Even though we can visit planets/moons which are closer to us, the truth is there are better discoveries further out. ESA is playing the long game. While others focus on what is close, they focus on what is far. I think amazing discoveries will come out of these missions. The only annoyance is the dependancy on solar panes for far out missions. Voyager1 and 2 showed us the benefits of using nuclear power.
Really awesome of you to make a video about this mission. I really hope that this probe will definitely rule out that Europe and/or Ganymede has a subsurface ocean. Excited for this one!
I hope it doesn't! A subsurface ocean would be awesome.
Can you make a video on how these things are transported all across the world to so many places all the while not contaminating them?
Not to toot my own horn but it's very much a mission I'm covering! Although I would agree even as a fellow spacetuber, I'm surprised that not everyone in team space is covering this. I know myself and the man himself Scott Manley are providing regular updates so it's great to see you are too!
Thank you for these. They feal like the true heir to Cosmo's legacy. I just found your channel and cant stop watching ...serioualy its almost 2:00AM and I cant stop watching these. This reminds me if the Cosmos episode "Travellers Tales" where Carl Sagan explaines the creation and vision of the Vouager Probes.
I love the way you say "Friedrich Schafen" 😄😘
(e.g. 8:28)
(It is more like Friedrich's Hafen - meaning "Harbour of Friedrich")
Thanks for another great video!
You are a FANTASTIC narrator. Love your channel. Love every video.
Any exploration of Europa and its fellow icy worlds will snag my attention. Such a fascinating world from an astrobiological point of view.
I cannot WAIT to see the results it sends back, especially in regards to Europa.
Space exploration is probably the best training exercise in patience....
Every technological advancement is a small step in the macroscopic search for knowledge...
Wait they launched juice already??
I didn't see it on the news..
Alex is my son's name too..😅😅
A strong name 💪
@@astrumspace ..i was gonna say that..😂😂👊👊💪💪
everyone only cares about NASA and Elon Musks SpaceX with their showoffs while ESA is actually sending important stuff up there that actually help with scientific reasearch :D
I am mesmerized by the inside view of the moons
Excelent video!
Awesome!
It'll be a great mission for my great grand kids to watch when they get to Jupiter.
Gonna be a tough landing! 😆
i look forward to the video you will make once it sends back info
Alex you are the best of best in this game. With love from Uganda and Africa.
These explorations are fascinating
Great Video. But it's definitely not true that no one's talking about Juice :) it's widely known in Europe especially in Germany...
Wahrscheinlich sprechen nicht viele in den USA über ESA Missionen ;)
I'd say I get 20 NASA did X videos recommended for every ESA did Y so I think it's kinda true. Obwohl ich nur 15km con Lampoldshausen weg wohne und die Test hören und sehen kann ;)
@@Aligartornator13 dann könntest du die Tests auf YT stellen? Das sind doch bald Prometheus-Tests für die nächste Generation LCH4 Motoren, oder?
Wow i had no idea this even launched. Such an important probe.
What a juicy moment in time we're experiencing!
Just the beginning
The amount of research and idk where you get all the footage but it's really nice to see these things before they leave and the work that goes into them. This is all kind of unintentionally hidden from public view in labs and only because of your channel are we able to see it. 8-12 years is a looooong time to wait. Hopefully it can swing by Rosa on it's way!
The last time the moons were studied in detail was the galileo mission. This mission is a huge upgrade to the former (Keep in mind that galileo had technical problems). So if you are starting studying astronomy, you can specialize in the jovian system...
Currently studying physics and im hyped about this. Some people i know worked on this!
It's amazing what human kind can achieve when the recourses are directed in the right way.
It’s so exciting to see us finally go back to Jupiter to explore the moons we’ve needed a mission for so long and europa clipper should be the most exciting. We just need to get the titan explorer drone in the works and I’ll be happy. If we find shale oil deposits there better believe US is heading there.
I wonder - if they had used an atomic battery like with the Voyager Probes, how much weight for inefficient solar panels could have been saved to the benefit of additional sensors and instruments...
The problem with nuclear RTGs used on missions like the ones used on Voyager is that they are incredibly expensive compared to much cheaper solar panels. That's why NASA used solar panels for its Juno Jupiter orbiter and will use solar panels on its upcoming Europa Clipper mission. They were able to use the money they saved on scientific instruments or on other missions.
Also, solar panels produce more power than RTGs. For example, the ISS, which uses more power than any other object launched into space, is completely solar powered. There are proposals to make nuclear reactors that could outdo solar (e.g., sterling reactors) but they are years away. Generally, RTGs are used when solar isn't readily available (e.g., the surface of Mars where there are dust storms and it's nighttime 50% of the time) or the light levels are too low (e.g., at Saturn and beyond).
@@bbartky how expensive is it exactly? Once the tech has been develloped what drives up the cost of subsequent RTG enough that it significantly impacts a $2B project? At face value the tech doesnt seem incredibly complicated.
On the other hand we're running out of plutonium 238 since its not longer produced at scale
@@bbartky Europa Clipper will even use the exact same solar cells, because they have been so thoroughly analyzed for these extreme conditions.
@@bbartky Well Its Jupiter and not Saturn, but still as said in the video the solar panels need to be several times as large as they would have to be on Earth or Mars. And this then quickly becomes very costly as well, especially considering they have to be controlled, rotated, folded/unfolded, protected during inner solar system flybys, so its a lot more points of failure with them than with a RTG.
Personally I think they worry about the PR issue more than cost. The public does not really like nuclear so much and the idea that there will be plutoium on a rocket that could explode or there could be some uncontrolled re-entry of the thing scares people.
The standard MMRTG simply might not be powerful enough for this mission. The solar panels on JUICE produce almost 8 times the power of one of those standard RTGs, even out at Jupiter.
this is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen
Im so proud of esa . And im 90% we will find life on the jupiter's moons
We better hope We don't.
@@curiositycloset2359 and why is that?
@@deadlypyre fermiparodox. If we find life. It means it's common.
But Intelligent life isn't. So, we are probably doomed.
@@curiositycloset2359 damn your point is more intelligent as I thought at first
That means you think life emerges at every place it can possibly emerge?
As ever, you've done an incredible job on this topic. I don't comment on every video, but I watch them all and they are all fascinating and so well communicated!
Cool stuff. There's a big difference between actual space exploration and promises of colonies on mars.
I wish Uranus and Neptune could get some love.
They’re just so _far_
Friederichs - hafen
I think that if your first language is English, braincells giving attention to pronounciation of other languages just atrofy...
Super fan the show. I would just think that we don't really _know_ that water is a key ingredient of life but rather "of life as we know it"
Great Scott
The JUICE is now loose
What a testament to what people can accomplish when we all work together for a common purpose! Well done, everyone involved in this achievement; I'm looking forward to seeing what they discover!
Glorious. I hope the development of AGI wont take away such accomplishments from us. These types achievments we can be proud of.
Wow NOBODY was talking about this mission! Im so happy its already in space on its way as i type this! I cant wait for the results if everything goes well.
The reason no one is talking about it is because it isn't a NASA or Spacex project !
In that case let's hope NASA's Europa Clipper mission launching in 2024 will get more coverage! Which I'm sure it will get...
Yes, I'm crying.
Its amazing the amount of so many different companies comprised of so many employees all having their hands part of this project and it actually working. This is one case where too many chefs in the kitchen wasnt a bad thing lol
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE..." We have been warned !!! ;-) But Seriously, I'm interested to see what is discovered!
Can someone explain how/why ESA JUICE makes a gravity assist swing from Venus, but I thought Venus and Mercury are both very difficult to visit because they lay closer to the sun.
I think what is hard is to be trap in those plante's gravitational influence and orbit them. Juice will not do that though
apparently getting to orbit of Venus is not as difficult as that of Mercury. A lot of mission to Venus happened in 1960-1980
Galileo, Cassini, Messenger, and other probe also maked a gravity assist swing from Venus
it's just that after Venus was discovered to have the hellish atmosphere and landscape, the interest went elsewhere
Nah, planet mercury is the only one hard, venus isn’t so bad, you see, planet Venus is the closest planet to distance to us so yeah, meanwhile planet mercury is way harder because it’s further away, sometimes more then mars to us
Actually it’s easier to go to venus then mars as it requires less fuel
Also, Juice is a very heavy spacecraft, 5 tons in weight, and thus requires way more Delta-V (the amount of speed to give)
No, it’s not because it reach’s beyond max weight and now rocket can’t lift it, no, it’s just it needs enough speed in order to reach certain planets
And thus, instead of using larger rockets, they use gravity assists in order to carry the heavy spacecraft towards Jupiter with minimal fuel consumed in order to spend its fuels exploring its moons and eventually orbit Ganymede
Thus even a lot of planetary missions spacecrafts use Venus/earth as gravity assists to reach planet mercury like messenger probes or Jupiter and so on
@@tsuribachi thank you for the info
Very exciting, and love the name 😎 since sending such a large craft and taking so long to get there would’ve been nice to have a small lander to melt it’s way thru ice and give us a real look
Amazing what has been achieved since 1946 with regards to space launches ..... first photos taken from space were taken on October 24, 1946 on the sub-orbital U.S.-launched V-2 rocket (flight #13) at White Sands Missile Range.
Interesting as always. I hope the decision to go with solar panels is a good one. That's massive size and complex to unfold.
Good point… RTGs seem to last forever… whereas solar degrades over time
It's named juice, Coincidence?
hello. why do you have swastikas in your title? are you a Hindu nationalist? perhaps you are an Indian Muslim that likes to mix symbolic metaphors. perhaps your belief system is non of the previous. could you please clarify?
@@timkbirchico8542 Im not from india, but i love indian history.
The hooked cross is an ancient symbol, used by different cultures. Really only in the Western culture does it have extreme negative connotations since the middle of the 20th century.
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer or shortened, Juice.
@@Emdee5632 Yeah, the austrian painter.
Thank you for your video. I was looking forward to seeing it. I like watching your videos. Btw, I am watching you from Russia
Juice mission is my favorite
Fox News: "We literally lied to you."
Fox Viewers: "NO YOU DIDN'T!"
Whats that all about anyway?.
@@winstonmcintosher2702 they are talking about the dominion payout.
I'd just say, stop using electronic voting systems, like a real country. Then there wouldnt be any doubt in the reliability of your results. It's worth noting that the democrats have said he same thing in at least two elections I can remember. But they seem to be aloud to without court cases.
Obsessed much? Its a space channel, not a political platform for you to spew your opinions out
@@curiositycloset2359 oh so just stop using machines to count the votes? So how would you suggest 350 million votes be sorted? All "real" countries use this kind of tech
This is fantastic! Why have I not heard more of this?
Outside of Europe and/or outside the countries participating in ESA, you're unlikely to have heard about Juice unless you are a huge space exploration enthousiast with dozens of subscriptions, or following whatever space exploration related news medium. Even I, living in the Netherlands, an active ESA member with two (former) active astronauts didn't see or read much about it in the media. I expect NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission, planned for launch in October 2024, will get significant more media attention...
@@Emdee5632 It was on BBC news too.
Most interested in Callisto, the most promising of Jupiter's moons for human settlement, due to its distance from Jupiter's powerful radiation belts.