SpaceX's Falcon Heavy To Launch Most Expensive Payload Made NASA Embarrassed...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy To Launch Most Expensive Payload Made NASA Embarrassed...
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intro 0:00
Europa Clipper 0:36
Low demand on the market 4:07
Falcon Heavy never gets old 6:26
outro 8:27
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy To Launch Most Expensive Payload Made NASA Embarrassed...
5 billion dollars for a mission of Nasa!
A staggering sum that would make any hardworking taxpayer gasp.
So it would be bad if that number continued to increase due to mission delays or simply opting for an expendable rocket at an exorbitant price.
Fortunately, that won’t be the case with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket.
And in October, with the launch of one of NASA’s most expensive missions, the mighty rocket once again reinforced the belief that even if demand declines, the Falcon Heavy will never get old.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy To Launch Most Expensive Payload Made NASA Embarrassed...
In October, we will witness a special mission of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Given that the workhorse rocket is taking charge to launch one of Nasa's most expensive planetary science missions, Europa Clipper, up to 5 billion dollars, to the distant destination of Jupiter. The Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly by Mars, then back by Earth, using the gravity of each planet to increase its momentum. These so-called “gravity assists” will provide Europa Clipper with the velocity needed to reach Jupiter in 2030.
In a statement on August 28, Nasa announced that "the mission remains on track, with a launch period opening on Thursday, October 10. The next major milestone for Clipper is Key Decision Point E on Monday, September 9, in which the agency will decide whether the project is ready to proceed to launch and mission operations. NASA will provide more information at a mission overview and media briefing targeted for that same week."
This is a positive sign for a mission, which was in doubt in July whether it should be delayed. At that time, NASA announced that testing of the transistors showed some were likely to fail in the high-radiation environment created by Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field. It leads to the challenges of launching a mission in time. NASA said they would determine how many transistors may be susceptible and how they will perform in flight. They were evaluating options for maximizing the transistors' longevity in the Jupiter system.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy To Launch Most Expensive Payload Made NASA Embarrassed...
Fortunately, the mission team finally completed the testing of transistors used in the power supply system on the spacecraft. “Analysis of the results suggests the transistors can support the baseline mission,” nasa said.
Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy during a three-week window that opens on October 10. The heavy-lift rocket was chosen for its affordability, reliability, and engineering adaptability.
Nasa, in its fiscal year 2021 budget request, argued that a commercial launch could save the agency “over 1.5 billion dollars compared to using a Space Launch System rocket.”.
Due to Europa Clipper's value and complexity, Nasa required that vehicles have performed at least three successful launches, including at least two successful consecutive launches.
Fortunately, by then, Falcon Heavy had flown three times, all successfully, although it has not launched since June 2019. Nasa's SLS had its maiden launch delayed to 2022. Alternative vehicles with the performance required for the mission, such as Blue Origin’s New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, still stayed on the ground.
Furthermore, launching on Falcon Heavy will reduce launch vibration, protecting the payload better. The SLS, a massive rocket, relied on two solid rocket boosters during launch, generating significant vibrations. SLS program officials had assured Nasa leadership that the twisting load, a measure of the rocket's twist and shake, would be within acceptable limits. However, subsequent tests conducted by Nasa revealed a startling reality: the actual twisting load was nearly double the SLS program's estimates.
For all these reasons, the agency decided to make the switch to the Falcon Heavy.

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[youerny]

JPL is the only department at NASA still up to the former glory days. The more I look at Artemis the more I feel depressed. Indeed the root cause is lack of funding from the congress, but still they are better than ever at spending those funds at the casino 🎰

[RudiJock]

Just curious- at 2:47 you say Falcon Heavy has not launched since 2019. I thought there was a Heavy launch back in June, no?

[juanengelaar]

NASA has made a monumental error, when they selected Boeing as their principle means of space traveling.
They discriminated against SpaceX, and that was received as a declaration of war against Musk.
And if you challenge Musk, you will lose. 😂

[kwichzwellbreck]

Mark my words....With the delay of Sue Origins New Glen 1st flight and the push back therefore of Escapade to next year and the Earth-Mars transfer window shrinking by the minute we will see in 1 or 2 weeks the announcement that Escapade will fly on F-Heavy soon.

[kevinbissett]

Good Morning. Great Episode. I'm glad to see that NASA is using SpaceX to launch the Europa Clipper. But how in the world would you build a satellite without taking into consideration the electrical components being the highest priorities. It has to be made with highest quality components available. If not the develop them. That's what the space program used to be about. Remember Tang the orange drink or the Bic pen. All developed because of the space program. And that's just for openers. Great Episode. Have a Great Sunday my Friend.

[Logoseum]

Blue Origin's New Glenn is supposed to compete with the SpaceX Falcon Heavy...with fewer heavy payloads Blue Origin is screwed.

[dwightlooi]

Why entrust the most valuable payload to a new, unproven and perhaps unreliable rocket?

[MichaelJolySr]

Where is the FAA when they need to screw up this launch

[fionajack]

Same subject. Same headline two months ago.. Q88M, Hoa Ky covered this yesterday.
Too many sites, trying to cover the industry daily. Even in Musk World, things don’t change that fast

[clarencehopkins]

Not another taxpayer penny to SLS ULA or Boeing We The Ducking People

[robhawthorne]

Someone please answer why? Why hasn’t Space X just put 4 Falcon 9s together for a super heavy..

[frankwolf]

Aarrrgh!...continuing to use solid fuel rockets (boosters or otherwise) is akin to using digital playback machines vs high quality vinyl records, constantly expecting the quality of the latter from the former! Whereas the former is always going to be unnatural, jagged, square-wave sounds compared to naturally smooth, sinusoidal sound waves: solid fuel rockets essentially are a sharp, rapid series of explosions for acceleration, one after the other; while liquid fuel rockets produce a strong, steadily smooth acceleration. The latter being far more easy on equipment being launched than the former...cheaper up from for solid fuel rockets, yes, but is risking multimillion to billion dollar systems into orbit worth it?..."Pound-wise but penny-foolish" always seems to be NASA's choice; after all it's not their money being wasted, it's your and mine!

PS: it's the "bean counters" that run NASA, not engineers and scientists...so damn sadly! But it's us the zombie American public that allows such foolishness to continue😡

[n.r.]

And what is that good for ?
How does it improve our life ?

[LeonAust]

When will Starship be ready? 3 years? SLS has been in orbit around the moon.
Falcon is a success but limited capability for larger payloads.
Starship is looking more and more suspect due to its 100 percent failure rate and what it needs to achieve to be human rated lunar lander.
Making Starship reusable and a mega claw tower only added weight and complexity for the limited missions it is to carry out.

[JohnSmith-cytt]

Exreme high radiation ---- and we still think we went to the moon - sill y ahit