RIME Antenna Breaks Free on Juice Spacecraft
More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy Juice’s ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 55-foot-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket.
During the first attempt to extend the folded-up antenna, only the first segments of each half were deployed. Flight controllers suspected that a tiny stuck pin jammed …
