Great news. This stuck antenna was getting me down. Three cheers for the ESA folks who fixed it from afar.
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-stuck-antenna-freed-jupiter-bound-spacecraft.html
Here is how they did it:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_RIME_antenna_breaks_free
The RIME antenna looks a bit like one of my dipoles! But it can look 9 km into the ice.
And what a great name: Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer. Juice.
Godspeed JUICE!
Nice Job! They took "Failure is not an Option" very seriously.
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