JUICE’s Jovian odyssey
The European Space Agency (ESA) released a new animation showing the long tour that the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft will take to reach Jupiter and explore it’s icy moons.
A testing time for RIME Antenna
ESA engineers tested A 1:18 scale model of the RIME antenna – Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (Principal Investigator: Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone) together with a simplified model of the JUICE spacecraft in the ESTEC’s HERTZ facility. Several tests were…
Seminar on the radar of the Rosetta mission
On June 5th Prof. Wlodek Kofman and Prof. Alain Herique will give a seminar entitled “CONSERT bistatic radar on the Rosetta mission: observations and main scientific results.” The seminar will address the measurements that explored the interior of the…
Envision and RSLab on Local Media
The selection on the EnVision mission to Venus and the key role of RSLab in the mission have been reported on local media.
JUICE ground control gets green light to start development of operations
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – JUICE – in which RSLab is the Principal Investigator of the “Radar for Icy Moon Exploration” (RIME) passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the…
RIME News
Another key milestone toward the implementation of the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) has been achieved.…
RIME Antenna Field Test
A field test has been recently carried out on the antenna of the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration – RIME (Principal Investigator: Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone) that will be on board the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE).…
RSLab on International Press with a Radar for Detecting Lunar Lava Tubes
The paper “Detection of Lunar Lava Tubes with Orbiting Radar Sounder Systems,” by L. Carrer, C. Gerekos and L. Bruzzone (presented at the European Planetary Science Congress 201, Riga, Latvia) has raised large interest not only in the scientific community…
JUICE is the ESA space image of the week
ESA is moving forward with the development of the JUICE mission in which RSLab is the Principal Investigator of the “Radar for Icy Moon Exploration” (RIME). This week JUICE is the Space Science Image of the Week and the official JUICE poster has been…