Spacecraft Makers: Simulating Space to Test Europa Clipper
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2024
- How did the team working on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft test whether the spacecraft will work properly in outer space? They put the spacecraft in a special chamber that mimics the kind of sunlight and airless environment the spacecraft will experience when it’s in outer space.
In this video, Tony Licari - a mechanical systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California - shows how the team moved the main body of the largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission into JPL's historic 85-foot-tall, 25-foot-wide (26-meter-by-8-meter) thermal vacuum chamber.Inside the chamber, the team simulated the kinds of conditions the spacecraft will experience while flying through space, and practiced deploying instruments. Europa Clipper successfully completed those tests in March 2024.
Spacecraft Makers is a video series that takes audiences behind the scenes to learn more about how space missions, like Europa Clipper, come together. Europa Clipper will explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to see if there are conditions suitable for life. The spacecraft needs to be hardy enough to survive a 1.6 billion-mile, six-year journey to Jupiter, and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of Europa once it arrives at the Jupiter system in 2030.
Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
For more information on the mission go to: europa.nasa.gov/.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 
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Crane operator- "Errrrbody stand out the way" Project Manager Engineer - " yeah it took us year to plan everything out, even where people were going to stand"
This is an awesome video! I'm pausing, rewinding...watching over different parts. Great diagram and explanation on how the "sun" is simulated in the space simulator. I'm so looking forward to a successful mission for Europa Clipper. Big thanks to the team for their hard work and dedication. Go Europa Clipper!
Hi guys. Thanks for the discussion on the Clipper stream. 😎😎😎
I love being able to see videos like this showing all that goes into awesome missions like this!
Can't wait to see this fly.
Scary even watching you professionals move the probe into the chamber hanging from the crane like that! Just the amount of effort, hard work & money that's gone into the spacecraft hanging right there!
excited, cannot wait to see if it finds life.
in lab?
@@Yezou1 💀
“All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landing there” (2010)
A very underrated movie 👍👏
Great job everyone! So exciting, can't wait to see what happens next
Good work 💯👍
The three songs played in the elevator are classic. If your on lab, you know. Long live Herb Alpert.
I'm guessing the "table shaped" object on the diagram with the large hole leading to it is the cryopump to get rid of what's left of the air after other pumps aren't effective anymore
Excellent. Thank you. 👍
This is amazing 👏. Thank you
im so proud yoi guys did that like all humans waiting for decades for an anser and jpl and europa clipper to find life beyond earth is the moment good luck and hope you find life guys
The coolest test chambers I've ever seen were even larger, and used X-15 rocket engines to evacuate the air from the chamber. They were operated by NASA at their WSTF facility.
To Europa Clipper and beyond the Jupiter system!!
Let’s go Europa Clipper
I find it incredibly amusing that creating and testing the most advanced scientific research devices we’ve ever made also involves pulling it around with a rope, and at some point a guy with a hammer banging a liquid nitrogen pipe
Kinda reminds me of the mockumentary-styled sci-fi Europa Report. The ship in it was called “Europa One”
Europa Report was actually not bad. One of the most realistic space movies I've seen in a while
What launch vehicle are you guys going to use to launch Clipper?
Falcon Heavy, just like the Psyche and Lucy missions. Launch is scheduled for NET (no earlier than) October 10, 2024.
🙋♀️ Question 🙋♀️
What would happen & what would I feel the moment I jumped into a pool full of liquid nitrogen ⁉️🤔
First you'd only feel the cold vapor of the liquid nitrogen vaporizing on your warm skin. This limits the heat flow going from your body to the liquid nitrogen and is called the leidenfrost effect.
After some time your skin would become cold enough that the leidenfrost doesn't work any more. At this point your body would rapidly loose heat. You'd freeze solid from the outside in, and if you were concious at this point you'd probably experience excruciating pain.
However you might be lucky and loose conciousness before that, as nitrogen gas suffocates you because it displaces oxygen.
If you accidentally inhale some LNG it might be even worse, as your sensitve lung tissue would get a lot of damage and the gas from the evaporating LNG would create a lot of pressure inside your lung.
So if you'd jump into a pool of LNG for more than a few seconds you'd definitely die and (depending on how you do it) you'd also experience lots of pain while doing so.
TLDR: Not recommended at all.
Let me guess - you're asking for a friend. 😸
@@lukasdimmler2622 I'd rather not know whether your knowledge is theoretical - or based on first-hand experience. Eek! 🥶
Very cool 😎 I have a long range cruser. That needs a part. Made Of copper, nickel and indium. Do you have any to. Spare.
NASA should have their own liquid gas production facilities.
Europa has a subsurface sub glacial water ocean?
Yep, so does Enceladus.. and they think at-least 23 other moons/dwarf planets do too... Callisto, Triton, Ganymede, Titan, Uranus, Mimas, Ceres etc
I always wanted to be the first person to grow cannabis in space or the moon.
Hold on to your dreams! You can begin rehearsing for your "voyage" right now, here, on Earth! 😏
@@TheStockwell so true
So, thermal testing only.
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What's a foot NASA?
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Dear Nasa and Nasa recipients
The "Marry Go Round (MGR) experiment" You Johny, and Danny are playing on MGR A and B. Johny is standing on MGR A and danny is standing on MGR B. MGR B is sitting atop MGR A. Both MGRs get spun in the same direction. This experiment is decribe the difference between expansion and speed. You are the origin for Johny' speed and Johny is the origin for Danny's speed. What does Johny have speed in reference to~ you? Yes you are completely relative to his position. Thus Johny is relative to Danny's position not you; because you have no force enacting on Danny. Why does Danny move faster than Johny when the same amount of force is enacting upon them? I'll tell you why It's because Danny is expanding away. You see Danny has his own limit of speed; Johny can spin Danny as fast as light moves because Johny is Danny's origin.
Plasma is timeless but vacuums the first state of matter are densless. Speed becomes fourth dimensional in a vacuum. Solids can store this extra dimension of speed really well because they hold shape. This is called inertial force.
Expansion can easily be engineered in the same way the marry go round experiment does it. Lets say you create an electrical magnetic force inside a coil spun in the shape of a solo cup. the electical magnetic charge is conected to a casing with coils of the same device in mulitple sequences until you reach the expidition ship. Now of course you would have to allow the coil to be hot for anything to happen but you begin to expand at a rate greater than the speed of light and possibly even faster. Whats the problem; we have a limitation of devices.
This is as far as i can take us into the future thank you.
Sincerely-Ronald Braden Russell
0:55. "for almost a year, maybe more..." If that was SpaceX, that would be 10 minutes, half the crew. Slower than a photo, for NASA JPL time is not money. No money, no future.
SpaceX would have also built ten of these things at great cost, and would fail the first attempts at great expense. Just very different design practices and mentalities. Most space projects aren’t as broken as the SLS. 😂 That things Congress’ baby, and a special case.
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