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The NISAR satellite, a collaboration between NASA and ISRO, successfully deployed its giant 39-foot radar antenna reflector in orbit, marking a significant milestone. This advanced radar system will monitor Earth's surface changes, aiding in disaster response, climate research, and ecosystem management, with the deployment enabling high-resolution imaging crucial for scientific and practical applications.
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission has successfully deployed its 16-meter-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna after weeks of effort to loosen a stuck pin. The RIME instrument is designed to probe below the surfaces of the large icy moons of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto to depths of up to nine kilometers. JUICE will arrive at Jupiter in 2031, a year after NASA's Europa Clipper mission, slated to launch in October 2024.
Flight controllers in Germany have successfully freed a 52-foot radar antenna on the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, which is on a decade-long mission to explore Jupiter's moons. The antenna had been stuck due to a tiny pin that refused to budge. The spacecraft will attempt to go into orbit around Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. Meanwhile, NASA's Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, which was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole, has been abandoned after struggling unsuccessfully for months to get into orbit around the moon.
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.
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, which is on a decade-long voyage to Jupiter, has successfully freed a crucial radar antenna that was jammed for nearly a month. The radar antenna will be used to peer deep beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life. Meanwhile, NASA's Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, which was launched in December 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.
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is having trouble deploying its 16-meter-long radar antenna, which is crucial for scanning beneath the icy crusts of Jupiter's moons. The RIME instrument is a radar sounder that can reveal details about subsurface geology and geophysics. The spacecraft teams are working to free the antenna, and they plan to shake the aircraft or rotate it into sunlight to warm up the mount. JUICE is on an eight-year-long cruise mode and will perform 35 flyby approaches to Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
The radar instrument on the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, called Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME), has not fully deployed its 16-meter antenna as expected in the week after its April 13 launch. Engineers suspect that a pin in the antenna is stuck, keeping the antenna stowed. ESA is considering other measures to deploy the antenna. JUICE, which will arrive in the Jupiter system in 2031, is one of ESA’s flagship science missions.
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft, which is bound for Jupiter, has experienced a problem with its 52-foot radar antenna, which only unfolded one-third of the way following liftoff. Engineers suspect a tiny pin may be protruding and plan to fire the spacecraft's engine in hopes of shaking the pin loose. The radar antenna is needed to peer beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life.
The European Space Agency reported that the radar antenna on Juice, a spacecraft bound for Jupiter, is jammed and only unfolded one-third of the way following liftoff. Engineers suspect a tiny pin may be protruding and plan to fire the spacecraft’s engine in hopes of shaking the pin loose. The radar antenna is needed to peer beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life.
The 52-foot radar antenna on Juice, a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks ago, has jammed and only unfolded one-third of the way following liftoff. Engineers suspect a tiny pin may be protruding and plan to fire the spacecraft’s engine in hopes of shaking the pin loose. The radar antenna is needed to peer beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life, a major goal of the nearly $1.8 billion mission.