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.…
First Echoes of the Moon for RIME
During the first in history gravity assist flyby of the Earth-Moon system, which took place successfully between August 19 and 20, the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) was activated and performed a wide range of tests.…
RIME gathers first data during JUICE’s Lunar-Earth flyby
On August 19-20, JUICE successfully completed the world’s first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. This maneuver will allow JUICE to take a shortcut via Venus on its route to the Jupiter system.…
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.…
New successful tests for RIME
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…
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…
First tests on RIME started
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).…
RIME Antenna in the first JUICE “selfie”
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.”…
JUICE successful launch!
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…