Juno

Skeeter · 5 Aug 2011 at 17:24

How many millions of $'s is this probe worth?

Cosimo · 5 Aug 2011 at 17:25

Go Juno GO!

Cosimo · 5 Aug 2011 at 17:27

Cosimo · 5 Aug 2011 at 17:28

Firework away.

sigma · 5 Aug 2011 at 17:33

Will hear from you in 5 years Juno!

PermaBanned · 5 Aug 2011 at 17:33

Skeeter said:
How many millions of $'s is this probe worth?

About $1bn i believe, one of the few NASA projects actually on budget

Godspeed, Juno! See you (briefly) in a couple of years!

http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/bolden/posts/post_1312557012865.html

PermaBanned · 5 Aug 2011 at 18:00

Xelene · 5 Aug 2011 at 18:05

This popped up on the News channel, always fun to see these things. The MORON news presenter ummed and erred over half of the NASA chatter with insightful commentary like "It's umm solar powered and err will get to umm Jupiter in err 5 years" The reason there was nothing on his teleprompter was because he was supposed to shut the Duck up.

PermaBanned · 5 Aug 2011 at 18:19

And that's second stage sep. Time for tea i think

Cosimo · 5 Aug 2011 at 18:52

Juno has successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas V rocket and is now on its way to Jupiter.

icecold · 5 Aug 2011 at 19:44

Thanks for the thread chaps

wannabedamned · 5 Aug 2011 at 19:52

So cool

(In a nerdy way)

PermaBanned · 5 Aug 2011 at 20:01

So when does/did the solar array unfold?

synixx · 5 Aug 2011 at 21:15

PermaBanned said:
So when does/did the solar array unfold?

As soon as it sees a black hole

Cosimo · 6 Aug 2011 at 08:58

PermaBanned said:
So when does/did the solar array unfold?

About five minutes after separation:

It arrives in 1825:16:01:30

Cosimo · 6 Aug 2011 at 11:29

sigma said:
Lovely looking spacecraft.

Are we going to see a lot more of these missions now that NASA has retired the fleet?

These missions have been going on and will continue. The remaining planned mission launches for 2011 are here:

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html

All important but the big one is Mars Science Laboratory (MSL):

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

PermaBanned · 6 Aug 2011 at 18:30

Not forgetting of course Soyuz TMA-22 on the 21st of September and Soyuz TMA-03M on the 30th of November to launch the crew of Expedition 30 to the ISS. The question being; do we continue to create threads for the major launches or do we combine everything into one big "*****Official Space/Astronomy*****" thread?

Cosimo · 7 Aug 2011 at 13:31

PermaBanned said:
The question being; do we continue to create threads for the major launches or do we combine everything into one big "*****Official Space/Astronomy*****" thread?

It's time to stop creating threads and keep all the stuff in a couple of places. One thread will just be too unwieldy for everything.

I'm going to start the "** The Official Space Flight Thread **” covering missions, technology, research and anything else space flight related.

Why don’t you start the “** The Official Astronomy and Universe Thread **”, covering telescopes/astrophotography, discoveries, life on other planets and science/research.

We can see how this pans out a few months down the line.

VeNT · 7 Aug 2011 at 14:48

used to always stick these in the Seti@home forum but I guess it's less relevant in there now

HNR1 · 7 Aug 2011 at 22:19

Skeeter said:
How many millions of $'s is this probe worth?

Not sure but worth it for the lego.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-241