Soon after the launch of Juice on 14 April 2023 the RIME antenna was supported to deploy. It did not deploy as expected and what followed was one month of seeking out the origin of the problem and solving it. Finally, on 12 May 2023 the ESA and Airbus Juice teams managed to deploy the antenna. In this technical presentation (20 June 2024) Ronan Le Letty (ESA) explains the complex problems around the RIME antenna deployment and how it was solved. Giuseppe Sarri, former Juice Project Manager at ESA shortly presents the context and David Monteiro, former Product Assurance Manager for Juice at ESA presents some final thoughts at the end of the presentation.
This talk is part of the ESA expert lectures with the support of ESA Knowledge Management.