JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system |
JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system |
Feb 16 2012, 09:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
Yellow book is available (13.1.2012) - JUICE.
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May 12 2023, 06:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
They deserve Champagne, not only free juice 🤦♂️
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May 14 2023, 03:06 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 14-January 22 Member No.: 9140 |
If you count Lucy's solar panels, and Juno's valves, all four orbiters that have been sent to Jupiter (and its Trojans) have had a part stuck during deployment. Luckily, all of these have had successful workarounds and a complete resolution in this case, but that four out of four number is eyebrow-raising.
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May 14 2023, 05:00 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
that four out of four number is eyebrow-raising. Why? There isn't a spacecraft out there that hasn't had a failure with workarounds. These things are incomprehensibly complicated. Thousands of components. Cassini had a reaction wheel go out super early. SOHO was nearly lost 20 years ago. Galileo's HGA. MGS's solar panels. MEX concerns over MARSIS deployment, MRO Ka band going down etc...etc...etc. They all have their problems. And their teams work around it. |
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May 14 2023, 05:13 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 14-January 22 Member No.: 9140 |
I think you may have read a criticism in my comment that I didn't intend. Of course very complicated projects have problems that are often possible to overcome.
In this case, the similarity of the problems and the same target simply seemed curious. Lots of missions have lots of different issues, but here three had issues with something external failing to extend correctly, and all with the same target. It's certainly not pejorative regarding the teams, and as the problems with Galileo, Lucy, and JUICE all occurred so long before arrival at Jupiter, there's no casual relationship there. It's also four different teams, two agencies, different decades… obviously no one pointing the blame at anyone. |
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