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Celebrating the successful launch and solar panel deployment of JUICE as it starts its 8 year journey to the Jovian system. I helped build that!
With Kraken rum and Death in Paradise. :) The celebration, not the build.
With Kraken rum and Death in Paradise. :) The celebration, not the build.
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Why doesn't JUICE (they spelled out the acronym) work in real-time?
Because it's Io bound.
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Yay!!
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I only buy Nature for the orbituaries
All that instrumentation on one probe!
Also... That's a really complicated trajectory: four gravity-assist 'slingshots' involving Earth and Venus, a polar orbit around Jupiter shifting to orbital insertion around Ganymede... Please excuse me while I sit down and have a brain haemorrhage, if there's no room I'll help you wheel out the propellant conservation strategists.
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You did! Well worth celebrating!
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I'll start Googling...
(Letters "E" and "T" somehow ommitted from icon, sorry. =:o} )
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(I'd forgotten that was happening until I walked past
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Hooray!
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