Galileo II Mission: destination Jupiter and Europa

[fausto]

A Jarvis M super heavy rocket will launch the Galileo II interplanerary space probe to Jupiter. This massive probe is designed for intense and advanced study of the planet and its moons. It also carries the small lander "Salviati" that will land on the frozen surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Jupiter arrival is scheduled for June 5, 2015.

Launch is scheduled for Sunday, September 15 at 11:51:00 UTC from Cape Canaveral Pad J B

Mission launch will be broadcasted live on Orbiter Live Missions:

http://www.livestream.com/orbiterlivemissions

 

[K_Jameson]

Just for information (in case you haven't seen the development topic): who is Salviati?

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Salviati"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Salviati[/ame]

 

[fausto]

Mission intro video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZNuvnLgdI4&feature=youtu.be

 

[boogabooga]

Wait,

are you going to do this live in real time...for 3 years? :huh:

 

[K_Jameson]

We will broadcast only the launch and the Trans Jovian Injection maneuvre.
Then - if we're still here in mid-2016 :rofl: - we will follow the Jupiter operations.

Anyway... later this year the mission will be released as addon.

 

[K_Jameson]

Some slides. The last one is in Italian, sorry!
As you can see, the architecture of the spacecraft has been changed from the one shown in the development topic.

 

[ionif]

Name of song?:hmm:

 

[K_Jameson]

Soon the tracklist :rofl:

 

[Dantassii]

Looks more like Cassini 2...

The ship looks more like the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn than the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter.

I love the idea of real-time missions being done in Orbiter.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS IMS shipbuilder

 

[K_Jameson]

The ship looks more like the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn than the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter.

Yes, Cassini was a more direct source of inspiration, being a more modern spacecraft. Anyway, some Galileo-derived features are present, as the dark insulation of the main body or the positioning of the sub-probe. Also, some features are derived from the Voyager spacecrafts, as the steerable main scan platform.

 

[fausto]

I want to say that the journey doesn't take 3 years, but less than 2. Probe's Delta-V allows us to fly on a faster trajectory and jupiter arrival is scheduled for June 5, 2015.

Another interesting thing about this mission is the double value assumed by Galilean moons encounters. The first goal is obviously scientific observation, the second one is a gravity assists in order to increase jupiter orbit periapsis and create the right conditions for Salviati to orbit and land on Europa

 

[Pipcard]

So how come it's all being launched on one super-heavy rocket instead of launching on smaller, separate ones?

 

[K_Jameson]

Jarvis M allows us to rejoin the Europa lander with the main probe, discarding the lander carrier and launching all in a direct hohman instead VEEGA, saving lot of time, fuel and weight.
None of the others FOI launchers (apart Quasar), not even the Jarvis H, allows a direct Jupiter hohmann for a probe of almost 13 tons of weight.
Finally, with the scrub of the ALR-M2 mission, this launch serves as dress rehearsal for the Jarvis M launcher.

---------- Post added 09-11-13 at 03:04 PM ---------- Previous post was 09-10-13 at 06:31 PM ----------

A thing must be said: if we're still here at that time, the landing on Europa will be by far the most complex planetary landing attempted by FOI with realistic spacecrafts. The "Orbiter Live Missions" are not predetermined, so a landing failure is a concrete possibility, that can lead to a lander lost in space, stranded in Europa orbit or crashed on the surface. Will be interesting to see if we'll make it or not.

 

[fausto]

Jarvis M rollout at cape Canaveral

 

[K_Jameson]

In these days, we have two superheavy Jarvis M on the launch pad at the same time... although in different continents :hmm:

 

[DaveS]

Jarvis M rollout at cape Canaveral

You do know that the road you rolling on is an ordinary asphalt road intended for regular vehicle traffic do you? The road in question is Kennedy Parkway N/S. It connects to the following roads: Saturn Causeway, Launcher Road, Orbiter towway and NASA Parkway E/W.

The only crawlerway leads to/from the VAB, the three MLP refurb areas and the two launch pads, 39A and 39B.

 

[fausto]

That's what we call oversize load :rofl:

 

[Pipcard]

FOI, you made a very detailed probe. Congratulations.

 

[K_Jameson]

You do know that the road you rolling on is an ordinary asphalt road intended for regular vehicle traffic do you? The road in question is Kennedy Parkway N/S. It connects to the following roads: Saturn Causeway, Launcher Road, Orbiter towway and NASA Parkway E/W.

The only crawlerway leads to/from the VAB, the three MLP refurb areas and the two launch pads, 39A and 39B.

This is the crawlerway Nine and Three Quarters.
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_Harry_Potter"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_Harry_Potter[/ame]

 

[K_Jameson]

Two last slides.

1- An old image, already published in the development topic, showing comparison between Galileo II (in a very early state of the development process) and Cassini.
2- A couple of internal details not commonly visible in the simulation.