UVS will record ultraviolet light emitted, transmitted and reflected by these bodies, revealing the composition of their surfaces and tenuous atmospheres and how they interact with Jupiter and its giant magnetosphere.
Kurt Retherford, principal investigator of Europa-UVS and deputy PI for JUICE-UVS.Īboard JUICE, UVS will get close-up views of the Galilean moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, all thought to host liquid water beneath their icy surfaces. "Having two UVS instruments making measurements in the Jupiter system at roughly the same time will offer exciting complementary science possibilities," said Dr. A similar instrument, Europa-UVS, will launch in 2024 aboard NASA's Europa Clipper, which will take a more direct route to arrive at the Jupiter system 15 months before JUICE and focus on studying the potential habitability of Europa. Weighing just over 40 pounds and drawing only 7.5 watts of power, UVS is smaller than a microwave oven, yet this powerful instrument will determine the relative concentrations of various elements and molecules in the atmospheres of Jupiter's moons once in the Jovian system. "Each successive instrument we build is more capable than its predecessor." "JUICE-UVS is the fifth in this series, and it benefits greatly from the design experience gained by our team from the Juno-UVS instrument, launched in 2011, as it pertains to operating in Jupiter's harsh radiation environment," said Steven Persyn, program manager for UVS. SwRI has provided ultraviolet spectrographs for other spacecraft, including ESA's Rosetta comet orbiter, as well as NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission in orbit around the Moon and Juno mission to Jupiter. Soon after, we observed a swath of the sky to verify the instrument was performing well." The team imaged a segment of this data, as the instrument scanned a swath of the Milky Way.
"On June 20, we opened the UVS aperture door to collect UV light from space for the first time. Randy Gladstone, JUICE-UVS principal investigator. "Our team of SwRI scientists traveled to Darmstadt, Germany, to put JUICE-UVS through its paces," said Dr. SwRI's UVS instrument is the latest to succeed in this task. The mission has overarching goals of investigating potentially habitable worlds around the gas giant and studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giants in our solar system and beyond.Īs it begins a roundabout 4.1-billion-mile (6.6-billion-kilometer), eight-year journey to the Jupiter system, the spacecraft has been busy deploying and activating its antennas, booms, sensors and instruments to check out and commission all its important subsystems. UVS is one of 10 science instruments and 11 investigations for the JUICE spacecraft.
The mission's science goals focus on Jupiter and its system, making multiple flybys of the planet's large, ocean-bearing satellites with a particular emphasis on investigating Ganymede as a potentially habitable planetary body. The ship itself handles well, but with it's lack of strength I can't see it ever being effective in combat - not enough to make it more popular than the Python or FDL.The UVS instrument is one of three instrument projects comprising NASA's contribution to the JUICE mission. The gun placement was horrific - the far guns can't converge well enough to hunt smaller targets and had to be Turreted, a grave waste of DPS. I even tried flying one in-game, and still couldn't understand the appeal. And I just couldn't do it - all I ended up with was a very expensive trading ship that had very weak shields and a horrible vulnerable powerplant. I spent an hour today tinkering with an Imperial Clipper trying to match the Python, and after failing at that trying to match a stock FDL. It's capable of carrying a large cargo or demolishing an Elite Anaconda without losing a ring of shields, and it's my benchmark. The whole machine cost 110 million CR to build. I have a top speed of 440 MS and my Agility is about what you'd get from a Viper MKIV. It's fully modded for combat with about 950 shields with four SCBs, 3X Large guns and 2X Medium.
People swear by them, especially for Bounty Hunting and other Combat missions. This ship has a very dedicated and loyal fanbase.
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