Europa Clipper in Danger // NASA Cancels VIPER // Dune Style Space Suit
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Published 2024-07-19
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Europa Clipper in serious danger
03:11 NASA cancelled VIPER
04:56 Dune-style suit for space
06:58 Falcon 9 failure
08:17 SpaceX's ISS de-orbit vehicle
09:24 Flight 5 SuperHeavy static fire
10:05 New Glenn Legs
10:48 Vote results
11:25 Why is the Great Red Spot shrinking
12:34 Mapping dark matter
14:16 JWST updates
17:32 Weird state of the launch market
Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov
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All Comments (21)
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When Scott Manley says it's dumb, it settles the matter. Poor VIPER 😵
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Going to the toilet have always been an opportunity to relax a little, get away from a boring job, check the news etc, perhaps send a few messages, but with such a stillsuit this will soon be history, we must do our business at the desk, still working, only now with a tank in the suit filled with warm liquid splashing around when you go to lunch
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I work in the facility where the VIPER is being developed and am very sad it's being cancelled.
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Small transistors out of spec, big consequences. So delays for Europa Clipper, unfortunately.
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If the fish and otters don't get in on the vote, I'm going to be disappointed!
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Great update information, Frasier, but those little otters were the real stars!
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Thanks for all the news, Fraser! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
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Angry has a great point that it would be far better to auction off the resources aboard ISS and keep in orbit. This would help develop salvage capabilities in LEO, as well as make all the resources and equipment that still has a lifespan available to other projects in space. The only cost to tax payers is keeping ISS in a stable orbit.
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For the SpaceX 2nd stage problem, it was the vacuum engine that had a RUD, not the 2nd stage itself. So the stage stayed intact, it didn't create dozens of smaller pieces that all need to be tracked. Also, the 30 thrusters on the ISS de-orbiter are quite small in width, and will easily fit.
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God damn it, I knew it be delayed, but I guess its better been broken here than Jupiter
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Thanks, Fraser 👍
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ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE
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This new moon endeavor by Nasa is weird. It started as a sequoia, but by the end of the decade we'll have perhaps a bonsai
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There is a meme in SF of a sublight generation ship being launched and when they arrive at their destination the planet is already settled by people who used a "hyperspace" vehicle. The Europa Clipper was supposed to be launched by SLS on a faster trajectory. Moving it to Falcon Heavy added two years to its trajectory. However by 2026 Starship will be available and it can launch the Europa Clipper on a direct flight to Jupiter. So a launch delay need not necessarily delay arrival at Jupiter.
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"a video of a family of otter that my wife captured" Do we want to know why your wife captured the otters? That is something that she otter not do again. Thanks for the great video, Fraser. Keep up the wonderful work. I am really looking forward to the "JWST year-in-review - Mk.2" video. It was terrific last time; this time should be, too.
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Coalescing galaxies looked awesome!
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Dammit why..
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Omfg thats like a major anomaly not sending the rover 🤔 hmm
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NASA what the actual efff! a mass sim when everything built???? ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH NASA!!!
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I just wish they would design these probes with a "kick stage" that can put it in a direct transfer to, in this case, Jupiter. It's stupid that we have to wait half a decade or even a decade to get there. And yes, it is possible. New Horizons passed by Jupiter just over a year after launch. Now, slowing down also takes delta V and adds mass and time, but it is fully possible.
