ESA's Juice Mission Suffers Setback as RIME Antenna Detaches

After three weeks of attempts, the 16-meter-long RIME antenna on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has finally been successfully deployed using a mechanical device called a 'non-explosive actuator'. The RIME antenna will be used to study the surface and subsurface structure of Jupiter's icy moons down to a depth of 9 km, as part of Juice's mission to investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the formation of our Solar System.