@ESA_JUICE 🚨Another RIME update!🚨
The antenna continues to move in its mounting bracket as teams at ESA #MissionControl pulse Juice's large main engine. No full deployment (yet).
🚨UPDATE🚨
Last week we commissioned @ESA_Juice’s attitude control thrusters and the large 400-newton main engine that'll be used for big orbital manoeuvres.
Now the 'big guns' are ready we can really get things shaking, in the hope of unjamming the stuck RIME antenna📡🤝
The @ESAJuiceBar is open and we already got a first taste of @ESA_JUICE’s science data! 😉🧃 We can’t wait to hear from @GALA_JUICE and JANUS. In the meantime, learn more about the international effort to develop and implement the mission to explore the Jupiter system. 🟠
Juice’s ice-penetrating RIME antenna has not yet deployed as planned.
During the first week of commissioning, an issue arose with the 16m Radar for Icy Moons Exploration, preventing its release from the mounting bracket 📡👉https://t.co/KrRFc7zekJ
🔖 🧵for continued updates👇
🛰️#ESAJuice is currently more than a million km from Earth.
〰️It's far enough away that light now takes ~3.5 seconds to travel between us.
And yet, it's 8 years to the gas giant.
Wait in the @ESAJuiceBar🍹 for #DestinationJupiter, or use the interactive #WhereIsJuiceNow👇
¡Y #ESAJuice ya está de camino a Júpiter!😍
He podido vivirlo al lado de Olivier, el responsable científico de la misión: PURA EMOCIÓN!😍👇
@esa@social4space
More than 2.500 children joined the #ESAjuice drawing competition on #Jupiter and it's moons and this young lady won. Great idea how to fascinate the next generation for space @esa 👏👏👏👩🚀
retweet @ esa: RT @ESA_JUICE: We're starting our morning at the #ESAJuice#SocialSpace with a tasty #SpaceJuice demo from our competition winner, who created a "Europa geology" mocktail! Check out all entries in our recipe book 👉 https://t.co/NuAMhs3oLi