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…
RIME antenna tests on the news
Media INAF has published an article that describes the recent tests on the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna.…
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.…
RSLab involved in a new NASA mission!
NASA announced the selection of REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface) in the payload for the mission to the Jovianmoon Europa expected to be launched after 2020. REASON is an Ice Penetrating Radaraimed to study the sub-surface of Europa until a depth of 30 km!
EnVision Advances
The study of the EnVision mission to Venus is advancing fast. On April 15-16 there was an important meeting involving the international NASA-ESA Science Study Team, the instrument Principal Investigators and the System Engineering Working Group.…
RIME/JUICE on Press
The progress in the development of the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) in the framework of the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) of the European Space Agency and the recent successful achievements are briefly highlighted from the local and national newspapers.…