Solving the RIME deployment mystery

Paris (ESA) Jul 08, 2023

When the RIME antenna on ESA's Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge to understand the fault and rectify it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter's mysterious icy moons. The stakes were already high before the spacecraft ever left the ground. ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) was designed by Airbus to conduct