JUICE RIME antenna
The antenna for JUICE's RIME instrument in its stowed configuration shortly after launch. The antenna, 16 meters long, had not fully deployed two weeks after launch. Credit: ESA

A radar antenna on a European mission to Jupiter has yet to fully deploy after launch, although project officials say they still have plenty of options to fix the problem.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...