Antenna Unstuck on Jupiter-bound Spacecraft.

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Antenna Unstuck on Jupiter-bound Spacecraft.
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The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft's 52-foot radar antenna, which will peer deep beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons, has been freed after nearly a month of effort by flight controllers in Germany. Meanwhile, NASA's Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, which was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole, has been called off after struggling unsuccessfully for months to get into orbit around the moon.

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