File:Juice RIME antenna deploys ESA24882709.gif

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More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer's (Juice) ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket.

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English: More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer's (Juice) ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-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 the other segments in place.
Fortunately, the flight control teams at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt had lots of ideas up their sleeves.
To try to shift the pin, they shook Juice using its thrusters, then they warmed Juice with sunlight. Every day the RIME antenna was showing signs of movement, but no full release.
On 12 May RIME was finally jolted into life when the flight control team fired a mechanical device called a ‘non-explosive actuator’ (NEA), located in the jammed bracket. This delivered a shock that moved the pin by a matter of millimetres and allowed the antenna to unfold.
Date 12 May 2023 (upload date)
Source Juice RIME antenna deploys
Author ESA/Juice/JMC
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