Europe’s major new interplanetary spacecraft has a slight problem

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Europe’s major new interplanetary spacecraft has a slight problem

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From Ars Technica:
"It has now been two weeks since the on-target launch of the European Space Agency's 1.5 billion euro probe that is bound for the moons of Jupiter.

This process had been going well until the space agency attempted to extend a 16-meter-long antenna that is part of its radar instrument. The Radar for Icy Moons Exploration, or RIME, is an important scientific instrument on the spacecraft because its ground-penetrating radar will allow for examinations of the interior of intriguing moons such as Europa and Ganymede."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04 ... t-problem/

I'm hoping for some good luck here!

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