Juice's final deployments complete: Ready for study of Jupiter esa
It has been six weeks since Juice began its journey, and in that time the Flight Control Team have deployed all the, antennas, probes and booms that were tucked away safely during launch. The last step has been the swinging out and locking into place of the probes and antennas that make up Juice's Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation .
Juice's antennas and booms each carry part or all of some of Juice's 10 instruments. By placing them far from Juice, the instruments that need to be separated from the spacecraft's own electric and magnetic fields are kept at a distance. After seeing the last boom deploy successfully this afternoon, principal investigator of RPWI, Jan-Erik Wahlund from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics said,"Fantastic, after more than 10 years of intensive work, we are finally ready for science discoveries!"
"Our 3D design strategy makes it possible to measure true physical observables, such as energy and momentum, without resorting to theories or simulations to interpret the data," says Jan Bergman, a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and technical manager for RPWI.ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has two monitoring cameras to provide snapshots with different fields of view. The images are provided in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution and can be processed in colour.
"The acquired data demonstrate that everything was nominal. After this intense on-ground session, we can say, we have a instrument!" says Pasquale Palumbo , principal investigator of JANUS.The journey to full deployment has not been entirely smooth sailing. Just a few days after launch,attempted to unfurl the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration instrument antenna. The first segments of the antennas unfolded as planned, but the next segments refused to budge.
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