Europa Clipper launching today

[Crazyhippy]

Live from Kennedy Space Center.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/watch-online/ will have a live feed. Space X Falcon Heavy, not landing the boosters, as they are using all.of the fuel, and dont have reserves for the landing.

Watching from the banana creek observation stands, which has A Saturn V located next door.

60 ish minutes till launch . 12:06 est planned, they just went go for fueling.

 

[Crazyhippy]

 

[Crazyhippy]

5.5 years from now, Clipper will rendezvous with Europa, a moon of Jupiter. It will fly a very elliptical orbit of Europa, so it can get down close to the surface, looking for liquid water (europa is thought to contain 2x the water as earth), and the proteins needed for life.

 

[Crazyhippy]

And away she goes!!! The sound of HP can not be explained!

 

[Tank]

I have a very strong feeling there’s some deep skunk works 1950’s type shit going on. Musk is launching so much shit. It’s like non stop. I also find it amusing thinking of his relations with the government right now.

 

[Taboma]

I have a very strong feeling there’s some deep skunk works 1950’s type shit going on. Musk is launching so much shit. It’s like non stop. I also find it amusing thinking of his relations with the government right now.

Amusing ?
Space X is NASA's 2nd highest recipient of contracts, worth approx. 2 Billion dollars in 2022 alone. Space X provides vehicles and launch services for NASA and has been NASA's goal since investing 500 million in Space X in 2007.

 

[bocco]

Lots of info here: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/

Including a pretty cool 3D model that rotate and zoom.

 

[Tank]

Amusing ?
Space X is NASA's 2nd highest recipient of contracts, worth approx. 2 Billion dollars in 2022 alone. Space X provides vehicles and launch services for NASA and has been NASA's goal since investing 500 million in Space X in 2007.

Yeah. I find that the current govt is in bed and relies heavily on musk when he basically told this administration to go fuck themselves.

That’s amusing.

 

[Taboma]

Yeah. I find that the current govt is in bed and relies heavily on musk when he basically told this administration to go fuck themselves.

That’s amusing.

While still cashing their checks --- noted

 

[Tank]

While still cashing their checks --- noted

Yep. While they still write them
Because they need him. It’s an interesting dynamic. Thus, Amusing.

 

[Taboma]

Yep. While they still write them
Because they need him. It’s an interesting dynamic. Thus, Amusing.

Whelp, considering Boeings current standings, that does currently provide Musk with a bit of a market advantage