JUICE is on its way

[nanila]

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.

Comments

[redbird]

Well done!

[hilarita]

Hooray!

[shirebound]

Hooray hooray!!! Thank you for helping!!

[ironymaiden]

YAY please tell me the Lizzo song was played somewhere along the way :D

[quoththeravyn]

It's wonderful, watching them go!

[silveradept]

I thought that was one of yours when I heard about it (or at least someone cracking wise with a pun:

Why doesn't JUICE (they spelled out the acronym) work in real-time?

Because it's Io bound.

Yay!!

[brainwane]

Yay congrats!!!

[spiffikins]

Wow how cool that I know someone who helped build a thing, that is in SPACE!

[lilysea]

The fact that I know an actual Space Engineer is pretty damn cool! ^_^

I only buy Nature for the orbituaries

[hairyears]

Yay!

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.

[rmc28]

You did! Well worth celebrating!

[doccy]

Woo-Hoo!

[pbristow]

Oh, I missed it! Is there a video? I love a good launch stream, and knowing "My friend Nanila made a bit of that!" would make it extra special.

I'll start Googling...


(Letters "E" and "T" somehow ommitted from icon, sorry. =:o} )

[lurkingcat]

Huzzah!

(I'd forgotten that was happening until I walked past battlehamster's desk yesterday and realised that he was watching the launch while doing firewall upgrades. There are some definite advantages to WFH - wouldn't get to do that in the office.)

[sabethea]

Awesome! Honestly, that really is very very cool.

[azurelunatic]

Hooray!!!!

[cha_mel_eon]

Congratulations!

[cesy]

Hooray!

[boundbooks]

Congratulations, that's one heck of a journey!

[lorigami]

congratulations!!

[forests_of_fire]

Awesome!!