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South Korea hails successful launch of homegrown rocket
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Space Systems Command Awards $45.5M Launch Service Order to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for Prototype EWS Mission
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Northrop Grumman on track to produce early-warning missile defense program
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BAE Systems to develop autonomous space-based surveillance technology
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Chinese mission with first civilian reaches space station
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Aeolus enhances volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety
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Aeolus enhances volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety
China launches Shenzhou-16 with first civilian to space station
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Juice's final deployments complete: Ready for study of Jupiter
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Flight controllers at ESA's mission control center in Germany have been busy this week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) for exploring Jupiter.
It has been six weeks since Juice began its journey, and in that time the Flight Control Team have deployed all the solar panels, antennas, probes and booms that were tucked away safely during launch. The last step has been the swinging out and locking into place of the probes and antennas that make up Juice's Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI).
"It's been an exhausting but very exciting six weeks," says Angela Dietz, deputy spacecraft operations manager for the mission. "We have faced and overcome various challenges to get Juice into the right shape for getting the best science out of its trip to Jupiter."
We've had regular snapshots of the entire deployment process thanks to Juice's two onboard monitoring cameras, each with a different field of view.
UAE announces groundbreaking mission to asteroid belt, seeking clues to life's origins
China plans to land astronauts on moon before 2030, expand space station, bring on foreign partners
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