JUICE finally managed to deploy its radar instrument.
."RIME is one of 10 instruments on board JUICE set to investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the formation of our solar system."The stuck antenna aboard JUICE's Radar for Icy Moons Exploration flaps about in an animation based on imagery obtained between April 17 and 21, 2023.. Everything went well initially, except for the planned deployment of the RIME antenna: The instrument's 52-foot-long boom got stuck.
The mission team suspected that a stuck pin was jamming the segments of the folded-up RIME antenna. They tried a number to tricks to jostle the pin loose — shaking JUICE using its thrusters, for example, and orienting the probe to be warmed by sunlight. These techniques showed some promise, moving the pin a bit. But success didn't come until today,"when the flight control team fired a mechanical device called a 'non-explosive actuator' , located in the jammed bracket," ESA officials wrote in the update.
"This delivered a shock that moved the pin by a matter of millimeters and allowed the antenna to unfold," they added.
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