The Toughest Space Probe Ever - How NASA Dropped A Probe Into Jupiter

Scott Manley December 15, 2024
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Scott Manley is someone who fell into YouTube because he felt a deep compelling need to teach people orbital mechanics and rocket science so they could play Kerbal Space Program, now, years later the gaming videos are less important and the pure science is the main thrust. My degrees are all in Physics and Astronomy, so much of the rocket science and engineering I've learned is self taught, always learning, always teaching. I used to do this as a hobby, along with my day job in software development, but that recently came to an end and I'm really appreciating everyone who has chosen to support my work through Patreon.

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The Galileo mission to Jupiter featured a space probe which would be dropped into the atmosphere of Jupiter. Because of this planet's gravity the atmosphere probe would experience conditions that no other spacecraft has seen. Entry velocities 7 times faster than those experiences by humans returning from orbit, massively higher temperatures and head fluxes, and no way to test the system fully on Earth. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley