Hey Scott, I am part of the Lucy Occultation Team and would love to see you cover that aspect of the mission as well. I would be happy to provide context and images.
@@captainmaim - Same skillset and knowledge needed yeah. Doing news videos is probably a LOT less work though. I sort of miss those carefully crafted epic KSP video series, but hey, he found a niche that (I'd imagine) pays a lot better, and he's still damn good at it.
The amount of effort and research that is put into each video is absolutely astounding... We don't give Scott enough credit for what he provides for us.
agreed and all of that without 5min introduction and 10min outro of a sponsor of the content, he's not making living out of it, I get it but frankly, his videos are of better quality than some people on YT that are doing it for living. Respect.
Incredible to see how you can fine-tune your mission design to hit multiple targets on the same mission. One of the more ambitious multi-target missions since the Voyager Probes! Super excited for the science that will come out of it!
In the early 2000s there was the CONTOUR mission, which would have flown by a handful of different comets. But it experienced structural failure during activation of its solid fueled kick stage.
The older I get the more it hits home that I'm reaching the age where I may no longer be around to see the final targets of these long-term missions. I envy you kids out there, appreciate all this discovery!
The mission dates take on a whole new importance for me now. But there will always be more when I am long ashes. I'm just so thankful to have lived from the beginning of the Space Race to the recent space science explosion. In my lifetime we went from believing civilizations on Mars to the real thing, Voyagers, and so much more (Hubble!). Really counting on smooth journey and operation of the JWST!
SCOTT MANLEY, THANK YOU!!! My wife and I visited the National Museum of the United States Air Force over the past weekend and because of your channel and the Everyday Astronaut channel, I have become a serious fan of all things space related. I have learned so much over the past couple years and even though I visit the USAF Museum at least once, sometimes 2 or 3 times, each year, I normally just glance over the rocket related areas of the museum. Not this time! I stood there in the Missile Gallery amazed, and then on to the next area to check out the massive 'spy' satellite and its launch vehicle, the impressive Titan IVb. Unlike past visits to this museum as well as previous visits to the NASA Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral and the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, I had a much deeper understanding of what I was looking at, how and why a particular rocket body or engine was designed and made and so much more. So thank you for expanding my knowledge and, I am sure, doing the same for countless others!
I would like to see a cheap (perhaps a cubesat-like thing, with some ion thruster for high specific impulse), mass produced probe. Build a few hundreds of them, and send them all over the solar system, to explore and image thousands of asteroids and KPO. Let's find where this damn black monolith is hidden.
Building cost of a spacecraft is just one component in the total mission price. You also need a ground crew, and you have to put that stuff in orbit. Putting something into orbit is about as expensive as that same mass of gold on earth. So while a probe for only 1/4 the price sounds good, it doesn't change the total mission cost by that same factor. (At least, until Elon builds his Space Elevator in like 2040 or something like that ;) )
There's also the problem that space is big. Really, truly, mind-bogglingly big. So the chances of this shotgun spread of probes managing to get close to... anything at all, would be pretty slim. However there might be something to the concept of having standard mass-produced probes that can be kept on hand to be shot at anything of interest that floats through a launch window.
@@Garagantua That's the idea. I think a spaceship could send a lot of cubesat-like probes in a high elliptic orbit. Then, each one will do its own slingshot maneuver, using parts of its fuel to be launched at the right time in the right direction. We don't care if the need 10-20 years to reach their target, or if some of them are lost. But either we make giant space interferometer telescopes, or we send tiny cheap probes en masse. There are thousands of objects in the solar system and we don't know what they are until we send something around it.
@@Garagantua Just as an FYI, even Starship - humanity's first prototype fully reusable rocket system - will be cheaper than the most optimistic projections for a space elevator. Space elevators aren't cheap. What they do do is allow you to massively expand the amount of material heading up and down compared to rockets. It would only take a few hundred Starship launches (and reentries) per day to dramatically change the energy balance of Earth's upper atmosphere. Any reasonably sized spacefaring civilization would need at the very least 10s of thousands of launches per day, not hundreds. Space elevators allow you to do that kind of thing without wrecking the upper atmosphere. But they're not cheap and they take a long time to get to GEO and then back down again. Not only will they never be cheaper than reusable rockets, they'll never be used for human transportation (too slow).
Lol, for sure. IMO, he earned it though. Every time I start trying to learn the maths of orbital mechanics, I forget which way is up... Or is there an "up"?
@@somewherenorthofstarbase7056 I dunno bub I watched the entire series and Ricky would cross his arms say that line and Lucille would make that face when her plans didn’t work out
Interesting that the missions even has potential scope beyond 2033 and the mission instruments were developed using the lessons learned by other recent missions, such as New Horizons.
This reminds me of the expedition of the solar system that the voyager probes did in the 1970s-now just with asteroids this time. Whoever first worked out the math for this mission's route and figured out it was feasible is awesome.
It's definitely some impressive planning, no doubt. But my guess is that they set a rough course that would allow them to hit both sets of Trojans and then picked targets that fit along the path. Like how you don't plan a road trip as a series of gas stations, you just pull over when you could use a fill up.
Hahahaha! I was just thinking the same thing! I'm 60 and for the first time I actually started thinking whether or not if I'll be alive to see the end of the mission!lol!
While I understand Lucy is an important skeleton and Johanson is an important figure, Lucy was not the first australopithecine found. The first specimen, the Taung child, was described by Australian anatomist Dr Raymond Dart in 1924, and was the first early hominin found. Further it was Dart who proposed "Australopithecidae" from which all Australopithecus, including Lucy get their classification. And Dr. Dart was the uncle of my best friend from Law School.
I'm just commenting not criticizing. NASA named the mission Lucy because the first asteroid to visit is Donald Johansen and the name flowed from there and is appropriate. I just like giving Dr. Dart a shout out as it was he who created the field of study.
@@damianl3 No, they named the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson after the Lucy mission was selected and specifically because the Lucy spacecraft was going to fly by it.
Scott this video is incredible, some history, some technical rocket details, some spectroscopy details, some orbital mechanics. Amazing. I will probably be watching this a few more times to soak it all in!
Awesome summary of the mission, thank you. Space is big, it’s hard to grasp the scale until you think about 7 years from launch to arrival at the target. We are a very long away from human deep space travel.
This is going to be a literal ten year mission for the probe. It fascinates me that there could be a revolving door of mission team members that would either retire before it gets to Patroclus or just barely into college when this thing launches.
I don't get the two earth assists though. The options were add another 5 years or extend the rocket 8 inches for more propellant. That is some seriously cheap stuff right there.
Such a giant mission, however the majority of it is transition with not a lot of observations. So will love to learn about it's encounters. Other traveling missions are getting closer: BepiColumbo, Solar Orbiter...
I was on the Max Brewer Bridge watching the launch - it was pretty cool how it peered through the clouds and lit up the dark sky. Hoping they find a solution for the solar array issue because Lucy has lots of work to do! Great video - very informative!
Excellent presentation! After being exposed to space exploration and orbital mechanics through Kerbal Space Program, my brain just went bananas with amazement when you showed the sequence of orbits and the different targets for the mission. I've never before thought about, let alone been able to remotely appreciate, what goes into this. And even then I'm just scratching the surface.
Can we get a video about your University work some day? Given your fascination with space and asteroids in particular, it would be interesting to hear about
I know there are a lot brilliant minds and sofisticated computers planning this type of mission but it never ceases to amaze me how insane those encounters and gravity assists work.. it's insane
Gravity assist saves fuel, but makes missions soooo long. I look forward to the day when we have a propulsion system which can do away with gravity assists.
This is an absolutely fascinating mission that I knew nothing about. Much props to the spreadsheet Jedi like Brian Sutter who ran the numbers to figure out that path. Thanks for the news on this, please keep us updated.
At least! If in the next 10 years we find another asteroid it's able to reach after that final Earth encounter, this mission could still be doing work in 2039 at least!
You should do a video about before and after, artist impressions to real data, of many objects, including planets, planetoids, comets, asteroids, etc..
Heck yeah!!! I was a part of the 2020 NASA L'SPACE Program with the Lucy Program!! Even got to meet Hal Levison (albeit virtually). Awesome experience. All alumni of the program were invited to the launch, however I wasn't able to make it. :(
On this episode of Space Gear: May starts his own space launch company, Hammond installs an inertial guidance system backwards, And Clarkson speeds and powers his way into orbit!
Lucy is in the sky!! Amazing launch, gorgeous night view like sunrise when the Atlas was coming out of a low cloud layer. Must see! She is separated, solar panels unfolded, they have AOS, and she's in her solar orbit at 40,000 km/h, to reach a top speed of 644,000 km/h after the gravity assists (she never needs to slow down). See you in a year, Lucy, and thanks for the iconic launch!
Having watched the Moon landings as a young boy, I've watched the progress and occasional setback of space exploration with fascination. Scott discussing the length of the Lucy mission made me think drat! now I need to live to over 100 to see it come to fruition 🤞
Excellent video (as usual), especially the bit at the end about "Lucy in the sky with *A* diamond". Minor correction: Lucy wasn't human. She was a member of a *pre-human* hominin species known as Australopithecus Afarensis.
So happy to see Jacob Englander as first author on the paper Scott showed. He wrote an amazing program called EMTG (Evolutionary Mission Trajectory Generator) for generating trajectories for low-thrust ion drive missions. Just for my personal interest in the problem, I reached out to him seven years or so ago, and he very generously gave me a copy. He said that he was glad to, since "a few years ago, I was an amateur and in the same boat you are now."
I'm really looking forward to the LUCY mission, and to the PSYCHE mission that will launch in 2023 too. They were both selected out of a total of five missions by NASA. Last week we did also have the first out of nine Mercury flyby's of the ESA-JAXA mission Bepicolombo. Soon the James Webb Space telscope will also finaly launch. Desiny+ (JAXA), Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (ESA) and the Okeanos mission (With solar sail) are also coming up !! These are such exciting times for us space lovers. :-)
Speaking of asteroid belts, its important to note that the main belt or the Trojans are not thick with objects like we see in The Empire Strikes Back. With that in mind (and acknowledging the fantastical nature of the film) what do you think the "Asteroid Field" in the movie could be? A ring system? A debris field from a recent collision of planets or moons? Something else? Just thought of it while watching the video.
@@scottmanley it's like the dissynchronized (desynchronized?) orbital period of the Beatles and Star Trek have brought them back, not together, but opposed.
One little girl, Lucy Williams, inspired a drawing by Julian Lennon, which inspired the Beatles song, which in turn gave the name to the human fossil, which is what the name of the space probe is based on... Quite an influential toddler.
I normally think of a flyby as a probe flying by an object, but the orbital visualization in this video made me realize the probe in this case is just getting to their altitude and letting the objects fly by them
Hey Scott, I am part of the Lucy Occultation Team and would love to see you cover that aspect of the mission as well. I would be happy to provide context and images.
Darn Occult, always getting mixed in with the science teams. xD
That would be cool
i would be interesteed as well
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Up !
Ngl, Lucy in the Sky with a diamond is actually pretty cool. I'd normally roll my eyes at stuff like that, but something about it just hits different
Of course it's pretty cool. Probably was an idea of the Fantastically Awesome Deputy Trajectory Genius.
I thought it was Lucy(2014 film) with Scarlett Johansson going to DonaldJohanson - lol -.
@@leftaroundabout ah yes, the totally awesome trajectory genius of a guy
Same man, same.
That'd be the 14-minute buildup
Impressed Scott smoothly transitioned from teaching me orbital mechanics in KSP to space news. 👍
astonishingly, the same skill set applies. Now, how do we get that diamond named Jebediah?
@@captainmaim - Same skillset and knowledge needed yeah. Doing news videos is probably a LOT less work though. I sort of miss those carefully crafted epic KSP video series, but hey, he found a niche that (I'd imagine) pays a lot better, and he's still damn good at it.
And this mission looks like one my KSP missions. Dozens of gravity assists to reach my destination with the lowest budget.
The amount of effort and research that is put into each video is absolutely astounding... We don't give Scott enough credit for what he provides for us.
Agreed. The information density in a 15 minute Scott Manley video requires the average science youtuber to spend a year making videos
This. Thank you Mr Manley
agreed and all of that without 5min introduction and 10min outro of a sponsor of the content, he's not making living out of it, I get it but frankly, his videos are of better quality than some people on YT that are doing it for living. Respect.
Indeed. But lets try regardless
Cheers to that. And I can’t get enough of “Fly Safe.”
Incredible to see how you can fine-tune your mission design to hit multiple targets on the same mission. One of the more ambitious multi-target missions since the Voyager Probes! Super excited for the science that will come out of it!
In the early 2000s there was the CONTOUR mission, which would have flown by a handful of different comets. But it experienced structural failure during activation of its solid fueled kick stage.
Well, it'll definitely be a trip...lol👍
The older I get the more it hits home that I'm reaching the age where I may no longer be around to see the final targets of these long-term missions. I envy you kids out there, appreciate all this discovery!
Death is a door. What would really suck is if nothing ever died. But I get what you mean.
Ditto...
The mission dates take on a whole new importance for me now. But there will always be more when I am long ashes. I'm just so thankful to have lived from the beginning of the Space Race to the recent space science explosion. In my lifetime we went from believing civilizations on Mars to the real thing, Voyagers, and so much more (Hubble!). Really counting on smooth journey and operation of the JWST!
Hear hear!
SCOTT MANLEY, THANK YOU!!! My wife and I visited the National Museum of the United States Air Force over the past weekend and because of your channel and the Everyday Astronaut channel, I have become a serious fan of all things space related. I have learned so much over the past couple years and even though I visit the USAF Museum at least once, sometimes 2 or 3 times, each year, I normally just glance over the rocket related areas of the museum. Not this time! I stood there in the Missile Gallery amazed, and then on to the next area to check out the massive 'spy' satellite and its launch vehicle, the impressive Titan IVb. Unlike past visits to this museum as well as previous visits to the NASA Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral and the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, I had a much deeper understanding of what I was looking at, how and why a particular rocket body or engine was designed and made and so much more. So thank you for expanding my knowledge and, I am sure, doing the same for countless others!
Great video, Scott
Congratulations on the successful launch!
Shout out to Boeing for freeing up that Atlas V booster so this mission could launch on time.
I mean they were just going to use a different booster they had made. This just saved ULA some hassle since the booster was already in Florida.
Lol
In case you didn't get it, original comment is making fun of Boeing for epicly failing to deploy Starliner even though they spent 1.5 billion dollars.
Yah I don't think alot of people got it lolol
You left out - /sarc.
I would like to see a cheap (perhaps a cubesat-like thing, with some ion thruster for high specific impulse), mass produced probe. Build a few hundreds of them, and send them all over the solar system, to explore and image thousands of asteroids and KPO. Let's find where this damn black monolith is hidden.
Could load up a starship with like a 100 300kg Sats. A Starlink sat weighs 260kg for reference and has a thruster and solar cells.
Building cost of a spacecraft is just one component in the total mission price. You also need a ground crew, and you have to put that stuff in orbit. Putting something into orbit is about as expensive as that same mass of gold on earth. So while a probe for only 1/4 the price sounds good, it doesn't change the total mission cost by that same factor.
(At least, until Elon builds his Space Elevator in like 2040 or something like that ;) )
There's also the problem that space is big. Really, truly, mind-bogglingly big. So the chances of this shotgun spread of probes managing to get close to... anything at all, would be pretty slim. However there might be something to the concept of having standard mass-produced probes that can be kept on hand to be shot at anything of interest that floats through a launch window.
@@Garagantua That's the idea. I think a spaceship could send a lot of cubesat-like probes in a high elliptic orbit. Then, each one will do its own slingshot maneuver, using parts of its fuel to be launched at the right time in the right direction. We don't care if the need 10-20 years to reach their target, or if some of them are lost. But either we make giant space interferometer telescopes, or we send tiny cheap probes en masse. There are thousands of objects in the solar system and we don't know what they are until we send something around it.
@@Garagantua Just as an FYI, even Starship - humanity's first prototype fully reusable rocket system - will be cheaper than the most optimistic projections for a space elevator. Space elevators aren't cheap. What they do do is allow you to massively expand the amount of material heading up and down compared to rockets. It would only take a few hundred Starship launches (and reentries) per day to dramatically change the energy balance of Earth's upper atmosphere. Any reasonably sized spacefaring civilization would need at the very least 10s of thousands of launches per day, not hundreds. Space elevators allow you to do that kind of thing without wrecking the upper atmosphere.
But they're not cheap and they take a long time to get to GEO and then back down again. Not only will they never be cheaper than reusable rockets, they'll never be used for human transportation (too slow).
Scott always makes me feel smarter after his content, and that's why I love him.
Lucy's trajectory is very interesting. I'll be excited to see what it sends back in the next few years.
Asteroid missions seem to be the next big thing.
Pictures, probably.
Donald Johansson discovered Lucy, so now Lucy will discover Donald Johansson
greetings from soviet russia
I’m sure that that’s a big part of choosing that name for the asteroid
Hi soviet Russia
the "Lucy" fossil is NOT human. We did not evolve. God made us.
@@56pjr Go back to your hole.
I wish I had a job title as cool as Brian Sutter's
You can be a Totally Awesome TH-cam Commenter :)
Lol, for sure. IMO, he earned it though. Every time I start trying to learn the maths of orbital mechanics, I forget which way is up...
Or is there an "up"?
@@JohnSmith-yp2nt jupiter is up
@@JohnSmith-yp2nt The enemy gate is down.
You wish you could feed the masses with BS? Huh???
"Lucy, you've got some 'sploring to do."
Come on. somebody had to.
thanks for reminding me how old i am
Ricky Ricardo never said "Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do!" That false memory in millions of us is a Mandela Effect.
@@somewherenorthofstarbase7056 I dunno bub I watched the entire series and Ricky would cross his arms say that line and Lucille would make that face when her plans didn’t work out
Looks like the two Lockheed Martin employees on the trajectory design team both got to be Awesome Trajectory Geniuses.
Could not think of a better job title for the architect of such a surgically targeted mission.
Interesting that the missions even has potential scope beyond 2033 and the mission instruments were developed using the lessons learned by other recent missions, such as New Horizons.
Just like New Horizons was able to visit Thule!
This reminds me of the expedition of the solar system that the voyager probes did in the 1970s-now just with asteroids this time. Whoever first worked out the math for this mission's route and figured out it was feasible is awesome.
It's definitely some impressive planning, no doubt. But my guess is that they set a rough course that would allow them to hit both sets of Trojans and then picked targets that fit along the path. Like how you don't plan a road trip as a series of gas stations, you just pull over when you could use a fill up.
Thousands of asteroids out there, many similar trajectories are possible. It's a matter of finding which one is the most interesting!
You know you're getting old when you hear about a mission like this and your first thought is will I still be here when it finishes?!
Hahahaha! I was just thinking the same thing! I'm 60 and for the first time I actually started thinking whether or not if I'll be alive to see the end of the mission!lol!
Ditto
@@glenkeating7333 I'm 77 and I'm bloody determined to be around! (Stubbornness is a family trait - my father was 101 when he died, protesting)
Lucy, her pupils dilated, in the sky, with diamonds.
hey eye unblinking...
This reads like Tamarian dialogue
@@williamrosen3179 Temba, his arms wide!
@@JahyMoonwalker Boeing, their rockets returned for repairs, the taxpayers grumble.
Lucy, you have to do some fancy ‘splaining.
While I understand Lucy is an important skeleton and Johanson is an important figure, Lucy was not the first australopithecine found. The first specimen, the Taung child, was described by Australian anatomist Dr Raymond Dart in 1924, and was the first early hominin found. Further it was Dart who proposed "Australopithecidae" from which all Australopithecus, including Lucy get their classification. And Dr. Dart was the uncle of my best friend from Law School.
i think he means its the oldest one
I'm just commenting not criticizing. NASA named the mission Lucy because the first asteroid to visit is Donald Johansen and the name flowed from there and is appropriate. I just like giving Dr. Dart a shout out as it was he who created the field of study.
@@damianl3 No, they named the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson after the Lucy mission was selected and specifically because the Lucy spacecraft was going to fly by it.
You missed the Fantastically Awesome Deputy Trajectory Genius, Chelsea Welch
Thanks for pointing it out. 10:03
Scott this video is incredible, some history, some technical rocket details, some spectroscopy details, some orbital mechanics. Amazing. I will probably be watching this a few more times to soak it all in!
Respect is due to the team who put this mission together, 8 asteroids in 12 years Crazy!
Awesome summary of the mission, thank you. Space is big, it’s hard to grasp the scale until you think about 7 years from launch to arrival at the target. We are a very long away from human deep space travel.
This is going to be a literal ten year mission for the probe. It fascinates me that there could be a revolving door of mission team members that would either retire before it gets to Patroclus or just barely into college when this thing launches.
With the potential for a mission extension after that.
@@animatewithdermot There will most certainly be a mission expansion. NASA has already done it before with Stardust and Deep Impact for example
Speaking as someone approaching 70, spare a thought for us older space nerds who might not even see the end of this mission...
I don't get the two earth assists though. The options were add another 5 years or extend the rocket 8 inches for more propellant. That is some seriously cheap stuff right there.
Such a giant mission, however the majority of it is transition with not a lot of observations. So will love to learn about it's encounters. Other traveling missions are getting closer: BepiColumbo, Solar Orbiter...
i wonder, don't think he mentioned it, if it has higher data transfer speeds than New horizons.
@@5Andysalive It must. With it having decade newer hardware, and being muuch closer to Earth!
I was on the Max Brewer Bridge watching the launch - it was pretty cool how it peered through the clouds and lit up the dark sky. Hoping they find a solution for the solar array issue because Lucy has lots of work to do! Great video - very informative!
Interesting to note that this is the final interplanetary mission to ever be launched on an Atlas rocket.
It is not interplanetary though, it seems it is extra planetary.
@@christopherlperezcruz1507 A better term might be that it's the final Atlas mission that will be sent into a heliocentric orbit.
You missed the fact that Brian Sutter has an assistant, the _Fantastically_ Awesome Deputy Trajectory Genius, Chelsea Welch!
Excellent presentation! After being exposed to space exploration and orbital mechanics through Kerbal Space Program, my brain just went bananas with amazement when you showed the sequence of orbits and the different targets for the mission. I've never before thought about, let alone been able to remotely appreciate, what goes into this. And even then I'm just scratching the surface.
Awesome insight to the mission. Thanks Scott
This mission is a whole bundle of easter eggs. Love it.
Can we get a video about your University work some day? Given your fascination with space and asteroids in particular, it would be interesting to hear about
Mind blown !
The length of time , the precision required and timing is just mind blowing
That story arc from the beatles via an australopithecin to the asteroids with a diamond is truly impressive.
You're a gem as always Scott
I think what is really incredible is how good Scott is at telling these stories.
Really liked the technical breakdown of the spacecrafts scientific equipment. Excellent work!
Thank you Scott Manley you really make space flight understandable and accessible to those of us that have tend to read deficits
At last... another Scott Manley video!!!!
Wonderful synopsis of Lucy - thank you so much!
I know there are a lot brilliant minds and sofisticated computers planning this type of mission but it never ceases to amaze me how insane those encounters and gravity assists work.. it's insane
Gravity assist saves fuel, but makes missions soooo long. I look forward to the day when we have a propulsion system which can do away with gravity assists.
Maximum science for one mission. Very Kerbal! :)
This was one of the best episodes I've watched, and I watch them all. Way to go Scott! Keep em coming :)
First time I watch one of your vids and I'm awed at the clearness and perfect composition and narration. You're great!
somebody needs to make a scott manley "best of" playlist and this has to be in it. it just feels like a classic.
Hello Scott. thanks for making this video, I love it.
This is an absolutely fascinating mission that I knew nothing about. Much props to the spreadsheet Jedi like Brian Sutter who ran the numbers to figure out that path. Thanks for the news on this, please keep us updated.
I'm 60 now, to think this mission will still be doing science when I'm 73 absolutely blow my mind. Incredible.
At least! If in the next 10 years we find another asteroid it's able to reach after that final Earth encounter, this mission could still be doing work in 2039 at least!
I’m 50. The voyagers launched when I was 6? 🤔😏 Are they still talking to JPL?
you gotta love the people who names these missions Lucy in the Sky with Diamond, love it👏
Love you man! Greetings from the JSC Mission Control!
You should do a video about before and after, artist impressions to real data, of many objects, including planets, planetoids, comets, asteroids, etc..
So, a revisit in, say 15 years..? right?
"Shot it with an anti-tank weapon". KSP no more, now GTA. 😂
Heck yeah!!! I was a part of the 2020 NASA L'SPACE Program with the Lucy Program!! Even got to meet Hal Levison (albeit virtually). Awesome experience. All alumni of the program were invited to the launch, however I wasn't able to make it. :(
Amazing video, fascinating, look forward to updates on this mission.
On this episode of Space Gear: May starts his own space launch company, Hammond installs an inertial guidance system backwards, And Clarkson speeds and powers his way into orbit!
Lol Very Cleaver Scott the link to the Beetles nice one and a very interesting Vlog thank you
1:50 I love the flexible solar panels. Very clever design.
Lucy is in the sky!! Amazing launch, gorgeous night view like sunrise when the Atlas was coming out of a low cloud layer. Must see! She is separated, solar panels unfolded, they have AOS, and she's in her solar orbit at 40,000 km/h, to reach a top speed of 644,000 km/h after the gravity assists (she never needs to slow down). See you in a year, Lucy, and thanks for the iconic launch!
Great explanation Scott. Thank you!
Huge gratitudefor the exellent explanations, so laymen like myself can understand and be enthusiastic!
It’s a crime the binary asteroids aren‘t named Patroclus and Achilles.
Awesome work Scott!
Thanks Scott
Cool upload Scott and Lucy in the sky with diamonds about to become a real thing is epic 💎
Excellent stuff bro
These closing lines need to be given some award already!
Great and very informative video thanks! Glad you mentioned Hal Levison's (and Martin Duncan's) integrator Swift, which I still occasionally use.
Having watched the Moon landings as a young boy, I've watched the progress and occasional setback of space exploration with fascination. Scott discussing the length of the Lucy mission made me think drat! now I need to live to over 100 to see it come to fruition 🤞
Great video mr Manley. This makes kerbal seem like a mere game
Excellent video (as usual), especially the bit at the end about "Lucy in the sky with *A* diamond". Minor correction: Lucy wasn't human. She was a member of a *pre-human* hominin species known as Australopithecus Afarensis.
That's quite amazing. Go Lucy 🌐 🚀
So happy to see Jacob Englander as first author on the paper Scott showed. He wrote an amazing program called EMTG (Evolutionary Mission Trajectory Generator) for generating trajectories for low-thrust ion drive missions. Just for my personal interest in the problem, I reached out to him seven years or so ago, and he very generously gave me a copy. He said that he was glad to, since "a few years ago, I was an amateur and in the same boat you are now."
such great great tales of space flight. thanks again
I'm really looking forward to the LUCY mission, and to the PSYCHE mission that will launch in 2023 too. They were both selected out of a total of five missions by NASA.
Last week we did also have the first out of nine Mercury flyby's of the ESA-JAXA mission Bepicolombo. Soon the James Webb Space telscope will also finaly launch. Desiny+ (JAXA), Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (ESA) and the Okeanos mission (With solar sail) are also coming up !!
These are such exciting times for us space lovers. :-)
The new flexible solar panel are facinating give us more about it.
Thanks Scott. That's Awesome review.
Great song reference at the end kudos
So clear and great!
Speaking of asteroid belts, its important to note that the main belt or the Trojans are not thick with objects like we see in The Empire Strikes Back. With that in mind (and acknowledging the fantastical nature of the film) what do you think the "Asteroid Field" in the movie could be? A ring system? A debris field from a recent collision of planets or moons? Something else? Just thought of it while watching the video.
I have never been this early to a Scott Manley video, but now I'm here 27 seconds after upload.
feels good, man
If you get to 1 second, you’ll be pushing up against the edge of known physics
Wow, nice test rig around 1:45 !
7:00 - cool Lucy has a "temporal displacement drive" as well...
fantastic projects And more & more reliable with more complex gear on board ect , truly hope the mission pays off
Totally Awesome Trajectory Genius! :D
Props to these mission planners
the Beatles reference was beautiful !!!!!!!!!
impressive tour
thanks for sharing your experience with all of us👍😀
That ending .. awww :)
Haven't listened to that song in a long time. Going to dig up some Beatles put it on right now.
Alternatively, since William Shatner is flying to space this week you could listen to his interpretation.....
@@scottmanley it's like the dissynchronized (desynchronized?) orbital period of the Beatles and Star Trek have brought them back, not together, but opposed.
One little girl, Lucy Williams, inspired a drawing by Julian Lennon, which inspired the Beatles song, which in turn gave the name to the human fossil, which is what the name of the space probe is based on... Quite an influential toddler.
@@scottmanley or better still, Elton John's (with Lennon' on guitar) - the only Beatles cover I've ever heard that's as good as the original.
Scott, thanks for doing this! When I have more $$, I will become a Patreon 👍🏻
the people who discovered and calculated these are absolute geniuses !!
Bravo Scott, bravo 👏👏👏
Spectral, thermal, Manley analysis.. it's 2am. I'll leave it to the Manley man. Orbital mechanics though...
Fly safe, indeed. Godspeed, Lucy.
😍 scott the manliest
9:55 hey hey, you forgot about Chelsea Welch, AKA the Fantastically Awesome Deputy Trajectory Genius!
I guess we will have to wait until Perseverance finds the fool on the hill. Great video Scott.
I normally think of a flyby as a probe flying by an object, but the orbital visualization in this video made me realize the probe in this case is just getting to their altitude and letting the objects fly by them
NASA launches diamond satellite,
Blofeld: "You guys saved me the effort"