#JUPITER: Europa Clipper outbound for the Jupiter System. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | This is CVS High and the World. I'm John Bachelor. Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here and it's |
| 0:39.2 | launched. SpaceX has launched a Falcon Heavy with Bob. What is Europa Clipper? What is the mission? |
| 0:45.4 | All right, John, this is an exciting and intriguing mission in many ways. |
| 0:51.0 | The history of Europa Clipper is spectacular. Let me first start with |
| 0:54.7 | Falcon Heavy. SpaceX got the contract to launch Europa Clipper because initially |
| 0:59.1 | Congress had mandated it should launch on the space launch system SLS, but SLS was too expensive and |
| 1:05.4 | was never going to be ready in time and didn't have to pass the rockets capable of doing |
| 1:11.0 | it on time. |
| 1:12.0 | And so eventually Congress changed the law and allows |
| 1:14.8 | uh... that's a to buy a launch provider from anybody and the only other |
| 1:20.2 | rocket that could do it was the Falcon Heavy. So the Falcon Heavy provided the launch. |
| 1:25.8 | They did not, the side boosters on the Falcon Heavy had been used before, but neither were |
| 1:31.9 | recovered because they needed every |
| 1:33.2 | bit of fuel to get this into its proper orbital path. Same thing with the |
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