2025 RIME Science Team Meeting
On May 5–6, 2025, the RIME (Radar for Icy Moons Exploration) Science Team gathered to review progress and plan next steps for the radar instrument aboard ESA’s JUICE mission.…
New Maps of Land Cover for Climate Change
Time serie of high resolution land-cover maps are crucial for assessing changes in the land-cover patterns that either can affect or be induced by climate change. RSLab has the leadership of the
EnVision and RSLab on the Media
The EnVision mission to Venus and the activities of RSLab in planetary exploration and Earth observation have been recently the focus of some national and regional media insights.…
RIME antenna fully deployed
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…
EnVision aerobreaking around Venus atmosphere
ESA Envision mission (in which RSLab has the leadership of the Subsurface Radar Sounder) is currently in B1 study phase. Among the different activities in progress, specific attention is focused on the aerobreaking phase around Venus, in which the spacecraft will…
JUICE RIME antenna characterisation test
A scaled model of the RIME antenna – Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (Principal Investigator: Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone) together…
Interview on Venus Missions
A long interview to Lorenzo Bruzzone on the new ESA (EnVision) and NASA (Veritas and DaVinci+) missions to Venus has been published on the italian science magazine “
Making JUICE Mission – Episode 4
The development of the JUICE mission (for which RSLab has the responsibility of the RIME instrument) is progressing fast despite the pandemic situation. This video shows the arrival of the spacecraft at ESTEC for the start of the one year long testing campaing.…