Hurray! Juice Deploys its Stuck Antenna By Nancy_A
But wait … still another part of the antenna was stuck. And so the flight control team fired another actuator in the bracket, causing RIME to fully stretch itself out after months spent folded up for launch.Once ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer arrives at Jupiter, it will use RIME to study the surface and subsurface structure of Jupiter’s icy moons down to a depth of 9 km .
The spacecraft won’t reach Jupiter until January 2029, as it is not taking a direct route. An eight-year-long cruise will take it through four gravity-assist flybys past Earth and Venus, which will help slingshot the spacecraft toward Jupiter. The spacecraft will perform 35 flyby approaches to Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. RIME is one of ten instruments on board for remote sensing, geophysical studies, particle detectors, a magnetometer, and a radio and plasma wave detector.
Artist’s impression of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer near Jupiter and one of its moons, Europa. Credit: ESA/AOES
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