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RSLab started some tests  with a low frequency radar for studying the subsurface of the ice on the Marmolada glacier. The goal is to sound the subsurface of the glacier to analyze its structure and to assess the possibility to identify the presence of water below the ice. The first flight was done on Friday, July 7th mounting the radar on an helicopter in cooperation with the Helicopter Team and the Civil Protection of the Autonomous Trento Province. Few sections of the glacier have been measured in the area affected by the massive breakups of ice that caused the tragedy of July 2022.

If the results of the study will be positive the idea is to use the considered low frequency radar (which has a very limited mass and could be mounted on board of an UAV/drone) for a systematic monitoring of the glacier for providing glaciologists with an additional measure to asses the status of the glacier in critical conditions.

More details in the selected media news below.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing and will change more and more in the future the scenario in the space activities and applications. The impact of AI covers almost all the components of space: robotics, autonomous systems, ground segment and operations, satellite maintenance and data analysis are only examples of the areas impacted from this technology that will make it possible to address many new challenges in deep space and planetary exploration as well as in Earth observation.

More details below in the video interview realized with Lorenzo Bruzzone by Italian Space Agency for AsiTV and Global Science.

After antenna deployment, the test of RIME in the Near Earth Commissioning Phase are continuing successfully. With the 16 meters antenna completely deployed the sensitivity increased by 1000 times (or 30 dB) with respect to sensitivity before the deployment. The detailed test on the receiving chain of RIME show that the instrument is behaving as expected reaching its nominal performance.


More details below in an ESA web story that addresses the status of the activities in the Near Earth Commissioning Phase.

After three weeks of intensive activities the full 16 meters RIME antenna has been succesfully deployed. Now that RIME has its “arms” ready to work in the next weeks the tests will continue for completing the commissioning of the instrument . Below few images (credit: ESA) of the two arms deployed.


More details at the media links below.

The activities for the first tests on RIME (Radar for Icy Moon Exploration) have started on Sunday April 16 in ESA ESOC (Darmstadt, Germany). The tests will continue up to the end of the Near Earth Commissioning Phase of JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer).

 

The cameras on board JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) took the first pictures of the spacecraft in orbit. The Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna is clerarly visible in the first “selfie.”

More details from the media news below.

JUICE was successfully launched aboard Ariane 5 from the European spaceport of Kourou (French Guiana) on April 14 after that the previous day’s launch attempt was postponed due to weather conditions. RSLab has the PI-ship of the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) and appeared in the international, national and regional news.

Everything is ready in Kourou for the lauch of the JUICE misison scheduled for today. This is a very important event for RSLab that is coordinating the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) that is onboard JUICE (Lorenzo Bruzzone is the Principal Investigator and Francesca Bovolo the Instrument Manager). See below some examples from the large media coverage.

The RIME Science Operation Center (SOC) at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento has been inaugurated and presented to the press!

At the SOC scientists and engineers will define and generate the telemetries for commanding RIME, simulate RIME acquisitions in different scenarios expected on the Jovian icy moons and process data acquires by RIME during the mission.

 

A Science Magazine article looks at ESA’s JUICE mission and RIME, the ice-penetrating radar studied and developed under the leadership ofthe RSLab. JUICE will reach Jupiter in more than 7 years and spend 3 years exploring the icy moons. During these 3 years, RIME will investigate the icy shells of the Galilean moons, looking for the presence of possible pockets of water in the first 9 km under the icy crust.

See below for the article.

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