The Signal NASA Didn't Want to Receive from the LUCY Probe

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  • @astrumspace
    @astrumspace Жыл бұрын

    Use my link to install Angry Birds Friends for FREE: rov.io/astrum and revel in the destruction!

  • @stanikbr

    @stanikbr

    Жыл бұрын

    I will.

  • @abandonedaccount123

    @abandonedaccount123

    Жыл бұрын

    the least expected sponsorship

  • @DerekMarshall

    @DerekMarshall

    Жыл бұрын

    the slingshots fit the theme lol

  • @oxey_

    @oxey_

    Жыл бұрын

    can't believe this still exists lmao

  • @slimpai4929

    @slimpai4929

    Жыл бұрын

    They do be angry tho

  • @InsufficientYarsago
    @InsufficientYarsago Жыл бұрын

    Well I didn't expect angry birds! :D

  • @DestroyerWill

    @DestroyerWill

    Жыл бұрын

    I looked for the date this was posted thinking it was like 10 years old 😂

  • @GreenspaceGeckos

    @GreenspaceGeckos

    Жыл бұрын

    Same. im wondering who they think the market is watching this channel ?

  • @crq1g525

    @crq1g525

    Жыл бұрын

    Audibly laughed when angry birds showed up on screen

  • @TheeBritishGuy

    @TheeBritishGuy

    Жыл бұрын

    No XD

  • @mrln247

    @mrln247

    Жыл бұрын

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @kento7899
    @kento7899 Жыл бұрын

    I don't recall the other astronomy channels talking about LUCY very much, so this was informative. Wish I had heard about those Earth flybys. Maybe I could have seen it.

  • @astrumspace

    @astrumspace

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't know why but the topic doesn't seem to get many views, so it seems a lot of other channels avoid it. Hoping this video will buck the trend! It's a really unique probe and deserves some attention

  • @Msvalexvalex

    @Msvalexvalex

    Жыл бұрын

    Another channel (Dr. Becky maybe?) spoke about Lucy at the time the solar panel got stuck, but I never heard about it again.

  • @SonicBoone56

    @SonicBoone56

    Жыл бұрын

    @@astrumspace I never even knew about it until just now.

  • @SonicBoone56

    @SonicBoone56

    Жыл бұрын

    Anton Petrov seems to have covered it at least once or twice. I'm sure he'll cover it more as the mission progresses.

  • @kento7899

    @kento7899

    Жыл бұрын

    @@astrumspace I suppose part of it is we hear about the mission and the launch but then we hear it isn't going to reach its destination for a number of years and we sort of forget about it. It's hard to stay excited about something that isn't going to happen for 5 or 6 or ten years.

  • @davidconlee2196
    @davidconlee2196 Жыл бұрын

    It is astonishing that the trajectories of asteroids can be known so precisely, and that the trajectory of a probe can be selected so precisely that the probe can meet a (relatively) tiny rock hurtling through space.

  • @philiprife5556

    @philiprife5556

    9 ай бұрын

    To me, that's one of the more incredible aspects of our technology.

  • @Vinemaple
    @Vinemaple Жыл бұрын

    You'd think in a game like Kerbal Space Program, this kind of thing wouldn't happen, but actually, I have several times allowed probes' batteries to run dry, essentially killing the otherwise immortal probe, by using time compression without making sure the probe's solar panels are in sunlight. Fortunately, in the stock game, this only affects the probe you are currently monitoring. I often spend extra credits on solar panels just to make this mistake less likely.

  • @StrattCaster

    @StrattCaster

    Жыл бұрын

    haha, me too, i have alot of dead probes in my kerbal history

  • @kur0kiba

    @kur0kiba

    Жыл бұрын

    i have done this too many times. i usually just open up the cheat menu, check unlimited electricity, open solar panels, uncheck unlimited electricity, and then close out the cheat menu. getting to that point usually takes a lot of time and i dont save often enough. if i had to go back and redo everything i probably would just close out of the game.

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    Read my comment above for the simple answer. $$$$ Greed !

  • @rich1051414

    @rich1051414

    Жыл бұрын

    I have had some that were dead for decades before returning close enough to the sun to charge the batteries enough to fire the engines.

  • @Vinemaple

    @Vinemaple

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kur0kiba Yeah, I wouldn't get the same sense of accomplishment if I did that. Solar panels are rarely too heavy or expensive to add a few more, though... and like I said, as long as you're not actively flying that ship, battery power won't tick down.

  • @sulijoo
    @sulijoo Жыл бұрын

    I'm not even sure I've ever heard of this mission before. After all its been through, it'll be such an amazing victory if it succeeds. God speed! We haven't forgotten you!

  • @JoeShmoism

    @JoeShmoism

    Жыл бұрын

    How could you follow space news and not know about Lucy? One of her instruments uses a diamond disk and there were at least 3 months worth of Lucy in the sky with diamonds jokes 8-)

  • @magalipiendel411

    @magalipiendel411

    Жыл бұрын

    you haven't heard of it cause it's not real, like all the rest they make us believe regarding Space.

  • @BW-zq2tu

    @BW-zq2tu

    Жыл бұрын

    @@magalipiendel411 What is space then? Let's hear it.

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@magalipiendel411 So... you look up and see....... a projection? An image? The funny thing about all of your 'idea's tho, is that we have ideas of our own, that make perfect sense and are 100% within the known, tested, and observable laws of physics.

  • @danielthompson3205

    @danielthompson3205

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you know the NASA mission called Deep Impact? And then they made a movie on a whole difrent concept :/ So it's understandable you may not have known.

  • @CaptianInternet
    @CaptianInternet Жыл бұрын

    I am such a fan of this probe and the people who are behind it. If I can once in my life be in the control room to ... just be there. I would feel like a teenage girl at a beatles concert.

  • @CaptianInternet

    @CaptianInternet

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sirensynapse5603 okay. Maybe I went too far with that.

  • @browhyareyallsobad8673

    @browhyareyallsobad8673

    Жыл бұрын

    You didn’t go to far lol.

  • @scrung

    @scrung

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CaptianInternet nah bro you’re good, it was a good analogy Lol

  • @osamahashoor2548

    @osamahashoor2548

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro are you in the 1960s cause I’m sorry to tell u but the Beatles are no longer together 😂

  • @noahway13

    @noahway13

    Жыл бұрын

    @@osamahashoor2548 It was an analogy and the Beatles were mentioned in the video.

  • @MrRemnants
    @MrRemnants Жыл бұрын

    The math and planning behind these sorts of flights always blows my mind. Just seems impossible to me, especially when I see some of the equations involved hahaha XD Huge props to the folks that work on these projects and pull off these incredible feats!

  • @jamegumb7298

    @jamegumb7298

    Жыл бұрын

    Same. So I went out and worked throuh an orbital mechanics and celestial mechanics textbook and a few instructional things. It can get really complicated really fast because many bodies interact, but the basis is actually very easy (aside from some of the caculus required). High-G would probably require relativity but ask an expert.

  • @himanshusingh5214

    @himanshusingh5214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamegumb7298 High G and High V both.

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamegumb7298 No motion in our solar system requires relatively except mercury's orbit. But regardless, it's all done in computers, even back in the day (basically), so no one is really crunching numbers trying to find the specific amount of impulse required for a maneuver.

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    @samuela-aegisdottir

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kindlin Managing the motion of the satelites around the Earth requires the theory of relativity.

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@samuela-aegisdottir Calculating the time between pulses of satellites for accurate GPS requires relativity. Getting your orbit to work right and move around the earth in the ellipse/circle you want does not require any consideration of Special Relativity and time/space dilation.

  • @earthling_parth
    @earthling_parth Жыл бұрын

    I hadn't heard much about Lucy. Thank you for this very well produced video. I'm always fascinated by scientists planning long term goals for space crafts with such convoluted orbits. All the best Lucy ❤️

  • @cliftonsargent1572
    @cliftonsargent1572 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this, it’s easy to just give up on people with so much awful news and I guess people in general. Hearing about people that are so smart that they just want to find info in the universe makes me believe in people

  • @darth856
    @darth856 Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad NASA scientists are a lot smarter than me. Seriously impressed by what they can do.

  • @40KoopasWereHere

    @40KoopasWereHere

    Жыл бұрын

    Well just you wait until the next couple generations take their place, you'll be blown away by how they can TikTok 🙄

  • @luxmysterium

    @luxmysterium

    Жыл бұрын

    All they do is Computer Generated Images.

  • @Yusuf-cg4zt

    @Yusuf-cg4zt

    Жыл бұрын

    No one is smarter than anyone you just need to be passionate and patient

  • @luxmysterium

    @luxmysterium

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Yusuf-cg4zt Astronauts are simply actors. We've never been to space.

  • @Yusuf-cg4zt

    @Yusuf-cg4zt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@luxmysterium assuming they are actors , theres lots of other fields you can study

  • @Jordy120
    @Jordy120 Жыл бұрын

    Nice! I can't sleep and this popped up. Some welcome chill science and relaxation.....& I learn something. Cheers.

  • @Freakingbean
    @Freakingbean Жыл бұрын

    Someone three million years ago had no clue what impact they would have on the future. May they rest in peace.

  • @enchantederic3792

    @enchantederic3792

    Жыл бұрын

    Scary ... or amazing part, is that it was we back then looking up, very proud we have made it into space. :-)

  • @oxskirra
    @oxskirra Жыл бұрын

    I always enjoy listening to the perspective of space you present, been a fan for years. Please dont ever stop

  • @kurenaikitty4864
    @kurenaikitty48649 ай бұрын

    I just want to say that I have been citing your videos in my Space Studies class all semester. I like every video I've watched, and am now an avid follower. You are an excellent source, and I appreciate all the work and research you have put into these videos, as well as the interesting way in which you present them. Thank you!

  • @mefuri_k
    @mefuri_k Жыл бұрын

    9:50 damn i thought space force is just a meme before lmao

  • @galahadthreepwood9394
    @galahadthreepwood9394 Жыл бұрын

    The fossil was named Lucy because the song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” was playing on the radio at the time. So both the fossil and spacecraft have a Beatles connection

  • @FleshWizard69420

    @FleshWizard69420

    Жыл бұрын

    The scientifically accurate "Lucy in the sky with mostly iron and nickel" doesn't have that ring to it though

  • @davidvaughn7752
    @davidvaughn7752 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Thank you for this! I didn't realize that so much drama had occurred with Lucy! What a saga and the mission has really just started. There is going to be so much perspective changing data and we will learn so much!!! Your show is wonderful and so informative! Thank You again!👍

  • @Quickened1
    @Quickened1 Жыл бұрын

    I previously knew practically none of this... Thanks Alex... Great content! 🐥

  • @dukemarlborough165
    @dukemarlborough165 Жыл бұрын

    When the fossil Lucy was discovered, Johannson specifically named it after the song that he said was heard playing that day.

  • @RichardMerrill3Hawk
    @RichardMerrill3Hawk Жыл бұрын

    It's fitting the first official visit of spacecraft Lucy was the asteroid Donald Johanson, as he is the best known of the team of three paleoanthropologists who discovered the fossil they named Lucy.

  • @matthewyabsley

    @matthewyabsley

    Жыл бұрын

    Still not up there with more democratic naming policies.... like Probey McProbe (for example)

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    @samuela-aegisdottir

    Жыл бұрын

    They probably named the asteroid that way after chosing it as Lucy's goal. It's quite possible that it had just a number as a name before it was chosen for the mission.

  • @jenx5870

    @jenx5870

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matthewyabsley Gear up, you're about to learn in the video, DiNozzo.

  • @thespacepeacock
    @thespacepeacock Жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait for Lucy’s arrival to the Trojans! It really has been a good time for asteroid mission lately; we’ve had osiris-rex and hayabusa2, DART, LUCY… and the PSYCHE mission to a metal-rich asteroid is also still scheduled to launch later this year!

  • @goodboi6540
    @goodboi6540 Жыл бұрын

    You know you've succeeded when an already popular company sponsors you

  • @greenjp779

    @greenjp779

    Жыл бұрын

    Ngl that sponsor plug was the last thing I expected. I would be less surprised to see this channel sponsored by Nike

  • @testfire3000
    @testfire3000 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see that both times LUCY will pass through the Trojan asteroids, it will be moving opposite their direction of orbit. So the interactions will be very brief flybys.

  • @astrumspace

    @astrumspace

    Жыл бұрын

    New Horizons got a good view of Arrokoth, and seeing as both probes use basically the same camera, I'm hoping for good things from these flybys!

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    @samuela-aegisdottir

    Жыл бұрын

    I watched the animation on wiki and it seems to me that Lucy is moving in a similar direction as the Troyan Asteroid when passing thourgh. And it makes sense to me as the Toyans are moving in the same direction as Earth and Lucy is also moving in the same direction as Earth, somethink it needs to speed up by passing by.

  • @r0cketplumber

    @r0cketplumber

    Жыл бұрын

    Its motion will be prograde, but slower than the Trojans, giving encounter velocities of a few km/s, much like every other asteroid flyby.

  • @Tinil0
    @Tinil0 Жыл бұрын

    I only wish you had included a note that Donald Johanson was the anthropologist who discovered Lucy in Ethiopia, hence the asteroid Donaldjohanson which "looks weird"!

  • @kariahola463
    @kariahola463 Жыл бұрын

    The science behind those trajectories is truly mind blowing.

  • @angelafeldman5903

    @angelafeldman5903

    Жыл бұрын

    Just the process of thought alone! Imagine the math equation (s)!!

  • @terrapinflyer273
    @terrapinflyer273 Жыл бұрын

    The physics and engineering behind the trajectory and build composition of this project... is just amazing.

  • @HeatherSaltas
    @HeatherSaltas Жыл бұрын

    Only you could have made angry birds sound this appealing! Lol I love it! This was a great video on Lucy. I can’t wait to see future updates

  • @thingsiplay
    @thingsiplay Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Angry Birds.

  • @SmoothOperator67
    @SmoothOperator67 Жыл бұрын

    Angry Birds 💀

  • @marktwain368
    @marktwain368 Жыл бұрын

    Superb research and animation, as has come to be characteristic of your channel, Alex. It is such a treat to attend one of your chats about Space and the Universe!

  • @shantishanti1949
    @shantishanti1949 Жыл бұрын

    You have a truly lovely voice and delivery- it’s a pleasure to listen to. Thank you Di. 🙏👍 PS I hope we are still around to see the results of Lucy’s mission - the first being 2025 and 2027 … fingers crossed !

  • @LogicalNiko
    @LogicalNiko Жыл бұрын

    Space is a pretty hazardous place, one of the biggest problems is the effect of radiation. The variation in energy tends to cause all sorts of issues with mechanical parts, tolerates being pushed, metals tending to just weld to eachother. And then you have electronics... There is really only so much you can do to protect against stray bit flips, random components getting ionizing charges, etc. You can add some minor shielding, use chips with much wider traces and thicker transistor layers, and run at lower clock speeds; but that comes at a significant performance and energy cost. Its really a struggle for any probe to deal with having low overall mass, but have enough protection and redundancy from the harshness of open space.

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    Read my comment above for the simple answer. $$$$ Greed.

  • @Rocket_scientist_88
    @Rocket_scientist_88 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! I remember when ULA launched Lucy a couple years ago, everyone seemed really excited about it but I had wondered why it was named “Lucy”. I had just assumed that NASA made up an acronym, as they usually do, to come up with a catchy name. I could have googled it, I guess - but I just never did. Then your video gave a nice explanation - I had heard about the fossilized humanoid being named “Lucy” but I never made the connection before I saw this. What a brilliant explanation! The entire video was just wonderful. I’ve subscribed and look forward to more. I’m retired now but worked in aerospace for many years; I always felt like one of the luckiest people on Earth, because I got to do my passion as a career… and I got paid to do it! It was so much fun. I do miss it. I guess I could still consult, but I am kind of enjoying retirement a little too much… Cheers from New Orleans, Louisiana!

  • @bunnytail1370

    @bunnytail1370

    Жыл бұрын

    Im sure it is pronounced LUCKY

  • @stevemonkey6666
    @stevemonkey6666 Жыл бұрын

    You have some really interesting stuff on this channel

  • @JMurph2015
    @JMurph2015 Жыл бұрын

    The poor mission operators are getting Galileo flashbacks. Deployables are really hard to do exactly right. That's why JWST had such skepticism before launch and is so impressive after deployment.

  • @chrisbingley
    @chrisbingley Жыл бұрын

    Considering the speeds needed for interplantary travel within our solar system. Combined with the fact that space is far from empty. It's a wonder that most of our probes aren't destroyed mid-flight by micro-meteorites. And that's not counting all the other hazards that raise their head when you leave the safety of earth.

  • @grandsome1

    @grandsome1

    Жыл бұрын

    'Space," [the Hitchhiker's Guide] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.'

  • @Sandman_Slim

    @Sandman_Slim

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you drinking paint again?

  • @annakeye
    @annakeye Жыл бұрын

    Great video, Alex. You explained everything very well and gave me a better understanding of this mission. A mission that was overshadowed by all the dramas with the James Webb and eventual launch. Loved the romance of photographing the home of the original 'Lucy' by her significantly advanced namesake. Cheers and congratulation to all involved in this mission.

  • @Flight368
    @Flight368 Жыл бұрын

    The launch of a space craft is like a launch of a bird … That’s what I was REALLY afraid to hear the first moment. Anyways, thank you Alex! You’re truly a wonderful person. Uuuhhhh great vid anyways

  • @helenrobinson7771
    @helenrobinson7771 Жыл бұрын

    the fact that it discovered two new objects and its so far from its destination is incredible and shows how little we know still of our vast universe

  • @scousesav
    @scousesav Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video. Keep them coming love your stuff 👍

  • @titabethshomelifecooking3606
    @titabethshomelifecooking3606 Жыл бұрын

    Always interesting to watch the outer space.

  • @jessicap4998
    @jessicap4998 Жыл бұрын

    350 km is insanely close! The ISS is up around 400km, and they could have easily waved at each other.

  • @chrisantoniou4366

    @chrisantoniou4366

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately had Lucy waved back it would have been bad news about its solar panel...

  • @paulhaynes8045
    @paulhaynes8045 Жыл бұрын

    As Lucy came so close on its first flyby, could we have visually checked it out?

  • @Isaacrl67
    @Isaacrl67 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so well assembled, good work.

  • @Dbean48
    @Dbean48 Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy seeing how craft act and respond and fixes like a partial opening of the second solar panel, it has some vary precarious orbits dipping into our satellite debris fields as it approaches earth and back out on the gravitational sling shot maneuvers .. Thanks for the run though on Lucy the satellite missions in deeper parts of space ..

  • @RileyMeta
    @RileyMeta Жыл бұрын

    I love how happy he sounds about all this

  • @Richardj410
    @Richardj410 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for giving me more to read about.

  • @PhantomCatMusic
    @PhantomCatMusic Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for Angry birds for sponsoring this video... What year is this?

  • @MrPooPooJohn
    @MrPooPooJohn Жыл бұрын

    Whenever I think my job is too difficult I will watch this. Holy shmoly.

  • @KingdomOfSaulo
    @KingdomOfSaulo Жыл бұрын

    I'm very excited to see what the Lucy probe will bring to our view. The number of targets is crazy, at a whopping 10! (152830 Dinkinesh will be the first on 1st November 2023, you forgot to include it.) The Lucy Mission is really unusual. Especially it's flight Path relative to Jupiter. Got very Confused when i first saw it xd

  • @SonicBoone56

    @SonicBoone56

    Жыл бұрын

    It's also very long for a planned mission length.

  • @KingdomOfSaulo

    @KingdomOfSaulo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SonicBoone56 True. a mission so long could even reach dwarf planets in the kuiper belt such as Ixion.

  • @havareriksen1004

    @havareriksen1004

    Жыл бұрын

    If one counts in all the satellites, the number isn't very impressive. All missions to Jupiter and Saturn took snapshots and more of a large number of moons orbiting these gas giants. So Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini, Galileo, Juno etc. all had more targets as long as we count in all satellites.

  • @KingdomOfSaulo

    @KingdomOfSaulo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@havareriksen1004 Hm. you got a good point there. But i think Alex was prob referring to the amount of Flyby's in one single mission, and not just pictures taken from far away like these probes did with these (mostly) tiny moonlets.

  • @paulyiustravelogue
    @paulyiustravelogue Жыл бұрын

    I thought you were going to start the video by saying launching a rocket isn’t as easy as launching today’s sponsor, Angry Birds 😂

  • @blakes8901
    @blakes8901 Жыл бұрын

    videos like this remind me just how much better off the world would be if it was run by scientists and professors, rather than... well... you know.

  • @krotchlickmeugh627

    @krotchlickmeugh627

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah. Because covid was a masterpiece of modern fascism- i mean science

  • @johnzuijdveld9585
    @johnzuijdveld9585 Жыл бұрын

    All these scientific excursions are a testament to the ingenuity and dedication these folks have for scientific discovery, the mathematical feats involved are mind blowing and they have my utmost respect!

  • @jayhorsley8282
    @jayhorsley8282 Жыл бұрын

    This has to be one of the best channels on KZread I love space

  • @havareriksen1004
    @havareriksen1004 Жыл бұрын

    I hope it will be not too far into the future that we will be able to repair crafts that have such malfunctions. As LUCY came near Earth several times before venturing out to the orbit of the trojans, a team of astronauts or robots could have intercepted it and done repairs. Much like the space shuttle had service missions to the Hubble telescope. As long as one can safely approach and match the direction and velocity of the probe, it should be possible. But of course the velocity would be very high, so we might have to develop an entirely new generation of spacecraft to manage that.

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    Read my comment above for the simple answer. $$$$ Greed.

  • @RiverOfHate21
    @RiverOfHate21 Жыл бұрын

    NASA always seems to be at their best when things go wrong . 😀

  • @samuela-aegisdottir
    @samuela-aegisdottir Жыл бұрын

    I have never heard of Lucy (the probe) before, so this video was very informative for me. It is an amazing story of human ingenuity.

  • @patrickmurphy6775
    @patrickmurphy6775 Жыл бұрын

    Terrific information and a great video!

  • @tublue32
    @tublue32 Жыл бұрын

    @astrumspace A correction to your video, the satellite around Polymele was not discovered by Lucy, but instead by a group know as the southwest research institute. They observed using 60 ground based telescopes this star to provide a map you actually used in your video. Appreciate your work and love the video.

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    @samuela-aegisdottir

    Жыл бұрын

    I was wondernig about that because the "map" (11:57) looked like taken by numerous cameras from differnet places. That is possible on Earth, but not by a single probe. Thank for confiming my estimate. I feel clever now:-)

  • @theinquiringengineer

    @theinquiringengineer

    Жыл бұрын

    One small correction to your correction, SwRI isn’t a group, it’s a company/think tank. For my mechanical engineering senior design project I worked with one of their teams.

  • @737smartin

    @737smartin

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought it seemed odd that Lucy--designed for near-object observations--would be well equiped to observe distant transits. This explanation makes far more sense.

  • @PershijsmachnijKherson
    @PershijsmachnijKherson Жыл бұрын

    Hello, thanks for the interesting and beautiful video! Great channel! Good luck!👍

  • @terranhealer
    @terranhealer Жыл бұрын

    Lucy, what a satellite designed by the umbrella Corp would look like 😂

  • @phil1963100
    @phil1963100 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, and nail-biting too! Thanks very much!

  • @zachhoy
    @zachhoy Жыл бұрын

    really top notch visuals on this channel

  • @holdinmuhl4959
    @holdinmuhl4959 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing and impressing what stunning manoevres can be executed with unmanned probes. I am very keen and hope to live long to learn all the new discoveries which may be expected. There is no need for the expensive and dangerous efforts to bring man to the cosmic regions at our present stage of exploration. Let the probes do the job. The better we learn to apply AI the more we will be able to have all this work done by robots.

  • @davidvaughn7752

    @davidvaughn7752

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree! If human presence is so imparative, then there's plenty left for man and woman to do on the moon. Probes are so much more efficient and have already given us incredible and valuable information.

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    Read my post above ... for " Reason's " for such Failure's .

  • @silversurfer3202
    @silversurfer3202 Жыл бұрын

    I can't EVEN wrap my brain around all the mathematics involved in planning this mission 😳!!!! (Orbital Mechanics wise alone)

  • @ravioli6394
    @ravioli6394 Жыл бұрын

    The sciences and mathematics that go into these types of group endeavors will always be completely awesome to me.

  • @deanevangelista6359
    @deanevangelista6359 Жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile, Voyager recently beamed back a signal from an unknown source. After decoding the data, it was translated into English, and the message was frightening. “Greetings Earthlings. We have been trying for decades to reach with an important message about your car’s extended warranty.”

  • @slimeking101
    @slimeking101 Жыл бұрын

    The astroid with Pollimoly does actually have a name at least an unofficial one. It's named Shaun I was just on a trip to try and find its orbit (lookup Lucy occultation) as it could be dangerous to Lucy if it's not found. The data should actually come in within about a week or so and then we'll know its exact orbit. Also Lucy didn't find Sean it was a small group of astronomers working with the Lucy program on the ground. Interesting how it's done and would honestly make a pretty good video.

  • @KingdomOfSaulo

    @KingdomOfSaulo

    Жыл бұрын

    its Polymele and its moon is nicknamed Shaun, named after that one cartoon sheep.

  • @slimeking101

    @slimeking101

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KingdomOfSaulo unfortunately I don't believe so. I don't remember exactly what it's named after but it has something to do with the Lucy fossil.

  • @CharmaineSilva777
    @CharmaineSilva777 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, I had not heard of this mission before. What a great mission to follow.

  • @davebracey2027
    @davebracey2027 Жыл бұрын

    Superb report. Thank you so much

  • @mariadaluzmoutinho5701
    @mariadaluzmoutinho5701 Жыл бұрын

    A missão Lucy ...uma missão atribulada, além dos asteróides ainda tem que ultrapassar a quantidade de lixo a rodear a Terra!! Já não seria hora das agências espaciais fazerem uma limpeza?!! Preferiram formar uma guarda do espaço?! Bem sempre é menos caro...Quanto a viagem, numa curvas e contracurvas até aos asteróides errantes!! Não sabia destas atribulações...excelente vídeo!!

  • @curtiskretzer8898

    @curtiskretzer8898

    Жыл бұрын

    Collect all that material & put it thru a bubble jet constructor making a Dyson Belt

  • @philiprife5556

    @philiprife5556

    9 ай бұрын

    @@curtiskretzer8898 Ala the Dyson vacuum cleaner company?

  • @petergambier
    @petergambier Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting this up Astrum. Never realised that Space Force was for real, I've seen the very expensive but not too funny US comedy series with the great Steve Carrol but never realised that there was an actual Space Force. Perhaps SF's 1st mission will be to take out some of the 47,000 IFO (identified flying objects) which will make it safer for all the newer traffic like Elon Musk's belt of 200 Starlink satellites.

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    @samuela-aegisdottir

    Жыл бұрын

    I also dod not know that the Space Force exists. I thought it was just Trump's empty promise.

  • @Raeilgunne

    @Raeilgunne

    Жыл бұрын

    @@samuela-aegisdottir yeah, a part of the air force did orbital tracking among other things, and they just split it into its own branch. No clue why.

  • @scifisyko

    @scifisyko

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Raeilgunne Pretending to accomplish things, basically

  • @kaltonian
    @kaltonian Жыл бұрын

    fascinating, i didn't even know about Lucy & the android belts that Lucy is visiting, she certainly has got some exploring to do.

  • @michaeljoseph3528
    @michaeljoseph3528 Жыл бұрын

    Well narrated . Thanks 🙏

  • @knowthings489
    @knowthings489 Жыл бұрын

    Angry birds brings back memories

  • @MrStringybark
    @MrStringybark Жыл бұрын

    Why did they leave such a very small margin of error regarding the amount of energy they got from the two solar panels versus what they needed?

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    Read my comment above for the simple answer. $$$$ Greed.

  • @MrStringybark

    @MrStringybark

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paystar3436 Greed??? I would have thought more panels would be greedy. Not fewer panels.

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrStringybark Ah huge amounts of taxpayer money spent. The less panels means the Builders took the money and delivered LESS NOT MORE by not shopping around for better hardware and tech deals... and paying themselves way too much for design services that FAILED . gET IT yet ?

  • @philiprife5556

    @philiprife5556

    9 ай бұрын

    @@paystar3436 An absolute cynic and pessimist would say.

  • @vexron5872
    @vexron5872 Жыл бұрын

    I'm sad I forgot about Lucy, I live in Western Australia and would have loved to see Lucy pass over, we don't get many astronomical events here.

  • @VRG_HQ
    @VRG_HQ Жыл бұрын

    Top notch research and storytelling thank you

  • @BrandanTheBroker
    @BrandanTheBroker Жыл бұрын

    I'd rather Angry Birds than yet more Raid Shadow Legends or League Of Legends or Legends Legends Legendary Legends 😂

  • @twelved4983
    @twelved4983 Жыл бұрын

    It’s a shame it’s gonna take a looong time to get any results

  • @edsmith2562
    @edsmith2562 Жыл бұрын

    Well done. Lucy has a fine voice in you.

  • @emancoy
    @emancoy Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of C3PO telling Han Solo the odds in navigating through an asteroid field

  • @stug77
    @stug77 Жыл бұрын

    I still don't get why they named it Lucy. Lucy has been mired in controversy ever since the first parts of it were discovered in 74. Like, there are better, more complete examples of early man that (probably) weren't pieced together from various chimpanzee bones and a human skull. They don't have catchy names though. There are still plenty of astronomers, astrophysicists, and greek deities to choose from. Lucy the jigsaw proto-human kinda sticks out in that regard. Or maybe there's precedent for this kind of name?

  • @uh8myzen

    @uh8myzen

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't really know why NASA names things as they do, but given the nature of the mission, Lucy is a fair enough name since she is the most famous of all of our ancestral fossils, at least among the general public. It doesn't hurt that Australopithecus Lucy was literally named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". For me at least, it sort of works on a number of levels.

  • @johnbode5528

    @johnbode5528

    Жыл бұрын

    Lucy is only "mired in controversy" among people who aren't paleontologists. The Lucy specimen herself (AL-288-1) consists of pieces that were all found together in the same locality at the same time -- she is not some random assemblage of bits from different species. She is also not the only specimen of _A. afarensis_ , just the most complete individual.

  • @samuela-aegisdottir

    @samuela-aegisdottir

    Жыл бұрын

    I have googled the "controversy" about Lucy and it seems to me that the only people who have a problem with Lucy are creationists. Since astronomers are not creationists, I don't see a reason why not to name a probe by the name of the most famous hominid.

  • @boyscout8035
    @boyscout8035 Жыл бұрын

    angry birds???

  • @johnwilliams8855
    @johnwilliams8855 Жыл бұрын

    It was cool working on modifying the launch pads for the Delta rockets.

  • @DarkVoidIII
    @DarkVoidIII Жыл бұрын

    Of all the parameters NASA could have figured out, but didn't, is how to send someone up to Lucy to fix something as simple as a malfunctioning lanyard. It's a pity nobody had the forethought to get a space capsule capable of reaching Lucy and fixing it's issue in space, before it went anywhere.

  • @iceboi5983

    @iceboi5983

    Жыл бұрын

    No human has ever gone beyond the moon. It'd be reckless to send a human (at this point in history) into interplanetary space just to fix a probe.

  • @bruhus_momentum

    @bruhus_momentum

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iceboi5983 Also a new probe would probably be less expensive than a full manned repair mission capable of reaching speeds higher than escape velocity

  • @paystar3436

    @paystar3436

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iceboi5983 Robotic DEVICES that could do repairs is too economical for money hungry Space Biz Companies to be interested in. Get it yet ?

  • @iceboi5983

    @iceboi5983

    Жыл бұрын

    @@paystar3436 NASA is a government agency. They literally operate at a loss, try again.

  • @philiprife5556

    @philiprife5556

    9 ай бұрын

    @@iceboi5983 The repairs would be made when the craft was on one of its earthly flybys, but matching the speed would be a big problem.

  • @stephanieparker1250
    @stephanieparker1250 Жыл бұрын

    Great mission update, thanks! 🎉❤

  • @kickytink
    @kickytink Жыл бұрын

    Love the vids you make!

  • @reinatycoon3644
    @reinatycoon3644 Жыл бұрын

    It's too bad they named this mission somewhat after a Beatles song. I say this because John Lennon was a contradictory corrupt man. He sung songs about love and peace and a brotherhood of man yet he was mentally and physically abusive with his first wife and he was emotionally abusive with his son he had with his first wife.

  • @Apost0345

    @Apost0345

    Жыл бұрын

    So what, art is separate from the artist.

  • @Brian.001

    @Brian.001

    Жыл бұрын

    sang

  • @paulhaynes8045

    @paulhaynes8045

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it's known as being human. And something Lennon frequently admitted to. He didn't want to be seen as a hero, just as a messed up guy trying to get things right.

  • @ronjon7942

    @ronjon7942

    Жыл бұрын

    So what? Being human? The jag was a wife beating a-hole!

  • @Mrch33ky

    @Mrch33ky

    Жыл бұрын

    too true!

  • @themangix357
    @themangix357 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many times Astrum would change the title and thumbnail. Current title: 12:16 PM GMT, Saturday, February 11, 2023 "The Signal NASA Didn't Want to Receive from the LUCY Probe" Past title: Title 5:26 PM GMT Thursday, February 9, 2023: "The Solution to a Critical Problem NASA Couldn't See | LUCY" Of all the Science KZreadrs I watch Astrum is the 2nd most to change their thumbnail and titles, the most frequent being Veritasium. While the channel that hardly ever changes their title and thumbnail is Kurzgesagt (they're the best for a reason).

  • @Quickened1

    @Quickened1

    Жыл бұрын

    Changing titles and thumbnails is no deal breaker. Content creators are typically looking for ways to increase their click count, thereby their bank account... As long as the video is of the quality that Alex always delivers, I don't see many people here jumping ship... It's ALWAYS quality content...

  • @tirsden

    @tirsden

    Жыл бұрын

    2/9 10:45pm EST: "The Signal NASA Didn't Want to Receive from the LUCY Probe" ...I don't think I've realized this channel changes titles/thumbnails because I don't have notifications on and I'll get to my subscription inbox when I get to it. Kinda sad Astrum is doing it, as it's confusing for people who do keep up with channels better than I do.

  • @christophe5756
    @christophe5756 Жыл бұрын

    Another Excellent video! Thank You! 👍🏽👍🏽

  • @MarkAhlquist
    @MarkAhlquist Жыл бұрын

    Excellent as always, thank you

  • @philiprife5556
    @philiprife55569 ай бұрын

    I'm surprised that the narrator didn't mention the fact that the asteroid Donald Johansson is named after one of the discoverers of the fossil of Lucy. My 49 yo memory remembered the his name when he first began this narrative. Now I'm wondering if the asteroid was just named once this mission began, or if it already was named. My guess would be the former.

  • @mizushimo
    @mizushimo Жыл бұрын

    This is very cool, I just watched a NOVA episode related to this mission, and here it is again on the interwebs

  • @ponchobill72
    @ponchobill7210 ай бұрын

    Thank you! I really enjoyed this

  • @Heyheyhey0475
    @Heyheyhey0475 Жыл бұрын

    Just bought Space-Engine and realized today that’s how you get all those fancy visuals

  • @nikhilthakur1518
    @nikhilthakur1518 Жыл бұрын

    I love astrum videos ...i even wait for new videos to upload

  • @asupreme92
    @asupreme92 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine a probe crashes into an asteroid and causes a domino effect that make an asteroid hit earth

  • @jdxb222
    @jdxb222 Жыл бұрын

    i love the animation, it repeats everytime 😵‍💫