A Nuclear-Powered Space Mission | Mission Saturn

The Cassini mission required more nuclear power than any other mission in NASA’s history.

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[kyber]

Thanks for everything cassini were gonna miss you🖖

[nehapadhi]

Wow such a huge spacecraft thanks for uploading thos video

[CarlmeisterWasTaken]

PEOPLE KEEP MINING PLUTONIUM THAT'S WHY PLUTO'S SHRINKING

[ovniusa]

Jupiters residents will believe this is a nuke bomb sent from earth and will fucking retaliate

[grimjowjaggerjak]

I thought the treaty of nuclear proliferation forbid to put radioactive material into space

[esamalaslmy]

DO NOT DROP IT ON US AND SAY "OPS, IT HAPPENED BY ACCIDENT"

[boiragirules]

How clever is contaminating that whatever lifeform in Saturn with that powresource that crashed there.

[duckyanimations]

There's A Nuclear-Powered Space Mission out of the milkyway

[newforcemedia]

So when the spacecraft crashes on Saturn; human life cannot be possible anymore there, due to the radioactivity (?)

[ZomBeeNature]

Why use Plutonium, of all things, why not some other radioactive element? I mean, I guess that is a way to get rid of a little bit of Plutonium from the Earth but it seems like an odd choice.
Everyone, please watch my tiny nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!

[frostnotm]

Are you having a livestream of KASENES Deths

[rayzorray]

You make a point about how you protect the spacecraft from the cold of deep space but neglect to tell us that actually due to spaces thermo conductivity its actually quite hard to shed heat in space.There arent alot of molecules to take the heat away so it would infact be harder to keep it warm on Earth than in the coldness of deep space.

[rayzorray]

Thanks Working Class Hero . . . . but it was just a joke, but i still thankyou for bothering to read and correct the post.rAyZoR.

[alphamale]

Declassified: Cassini will take a detour straight to N. Korea.

[rayzorray]

Re Bluedowee . Lol i think my joke must have seen funnier in my head cos only 1person spotted one of the inacuracies that highlighted the joke, the other being where in America could i sit 6, 000 miles away from the launch, it would put me in the middle of one of to oceans lol. So sppoligies to all i did just assume id get coments from people suggesting iwas some sort of idiot if they never saw the funnyside however a bunch of angry emails tells me what i already knew, peeps need 2chillax lol

[rayzorray]

Also i dont respond privatley to peeps that email a response to a public comment so publically iwana say that actually BigJohn your email was the exception, but alas im sorry to inform you that i am not actually a time traveller although for a while whilst i read yr email YOU had me believing i was lol. Also BigJohn WTF, yr a walking factbase, i checked some things at random and they all checkout, congrats to you sir that email must of took U along time2 put together, would Umind if i posted it.

[rayzorray]

Re 10mintwo . .Hi you called me an idiot, ive no probs wiv yr name calling but can i pls askU a question, and seein as yr so far above my interlect could Upls just respond with a yes or no so that ican understand yr answer. So sir, or madam, the comparison point imade tell me this with al the laws of physics applied 2it, was my point still upheld, no cheating, just a straight answer cos im baffled how does me being rite make me an idiot, chilax sir or madam there is already 2much negativity inlife.