JUICE and RIME on Science
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…
Nature July’s Best Science Images
Nature has selected one of the images of the recent paper on lunar cave discovery published on Nature Astronomy under the coordination of RSLab in the ‘Images of the Month’ for July 2024. This…
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…
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…
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).
Italian Contribution to JUICE
The very important italian contribution to the JUICE mission has been presented to the italian press in Florence on March 10th. RIME (Radar for Icy Moon Exploration) has been presented as a key instrument for revealing the mysteries hidden in the subsurface of…
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. During the lunar flyby, RIME was…
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…
New test of the ENVISION SRS antenna
A model of the candidate antenna for SRS – Subsurface Radar Sounder (Principal Investigator: Prof. Lorenzo Bruzzone) has been recently tested by SENER in Spain. The test consisted in suspending the SRS antenna and a full-sized mockup of the EnVision spacecraft…