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What\u2019s wrong with the JUICE?<\/h2>\n

Luckily, JUICE is getting all the juice it needs\u2026 sorry I had to do it. The spacecraft is currently underway with its two-month commissioning phase and has deployed its solar panels. JUICE has even conducted some science already too!<\/p>\n

JUICE\u2019s radar dish, or the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, is 16 meters wide and is based on similar instruments on ESA\u2019s Mars Express and NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Unfortunately, the dish has only deployed about 1\/3 of the amount it should have by now. ESA believes the slow deployment could be a stuck pin that has slowed its movement.<\/p>\n

RIME\u2019s slow deployment is the only issue ESA is tracking on JUICE, with the deployment of a large boom being successful and many more coming over the next two months. And while RIME is just one of many instruments on JUICE that will study Jupiter, it\u2019s an exciting one to see what it discovers. RIME will be used to study what is below the surface of Jupiter\u2019s icy moons. Most of which we believe to have subsurface water oceans, a possible starting point for life.<\/p>\n

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