ESA fired a ‘non-explosive actuator’ in stuck bracket of the ESA JUICE spacecraft's RIME antenna to jar in loose. Mission controllers have been trouble shooting the antenna deployment for 3 weeks.

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which was designed to study the large, gaseous planet Jupiter and its moons, first caught hints of ...

That pushed ESA to be more efficient in management of science programs. She cited one case where the agency released funding held in reserve for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission that ...

Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA ... A good example is the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, which will make detailed observations of the gas giant and its three large ...

Paris, August 22, 2024, SPA -- The European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday in a press release that the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) probe has achieved a remarkable milestone by passing ...

As for a follow-on mission? ESA is working on the GaiaNIR mission, an infrared version of Gaia which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a ...