Flight controllers in Germany freed the antenna Friday after nearly a month of effort.
Footage of the launch shows Juice, short for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, blasting off on an Ariane 5 rocket from the ESA’s spaceport in French Guiana. A crucial radar antenna on a European spacecraft bound for Jupiter is no longer jammed.The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, nicknamed Juice, blasted off in April on a decade-long voyage. Soon after launch, a tiny pin refused to budge and prevented the antenna from fully opening.
The radar antenna will peer deep beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life. Those moons are Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.
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