ESA Juice’s RIME Antenna Breaks Free After Some Jiggling and Percussive Action

After ESA’s Jupiter-bound space probe Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) launched on April 14th of this year, it initially looked as if it had squeezed out a refreshingly uneventful deployment, …read more Continue reading ESA Juice’s RIME Antenna Breaks Free After Some Jiggling and Percussive Action

Hackaday Links: March 29, 2020

It turns out that whacking busted things to fix them works as well on Mars as it does on Earth, as NASA managed to fix its wonky “mole” with a little help from the InSight lander’s robotic arm. Calling it “percussive maintenance” is perhaps a touch overwrought; as we explained …read more

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