May 12, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy JUICE’s ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket. The images below were taken by MCSE’s JUICE Monitoring Camera. ©...
May 1, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
JUICE’s stuck but moving RIME antenna is captured by MCSE’s Juice Monitoring Camera on board the spacecraft. This animation shows the radar’s movements in five photos taken across 17–21 April, as teams on Earth work through steps in Juice’s deployment.In order,...
Apr 27, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Eutelsat HotBird 13G telecom satellite color seflies taken by MCSE’s camera from geostationary orbit, with the Earth at 36,000 km. These images have been collected thanks to Airbus, Eutelsat, CNES and ESA...
Apr 15, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera 2 on board ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, placed to monitor the multi-stage deployment of the 16 m-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna. RIME is an ice-penetrating radar that will be used to remotely probe...
Apr 15, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Images taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera 1 on board ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, capturing the rotation of the solar arrays during their deployment after launch on 14 April. © ESA/Juice/JMC CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Featured on ESA website...
Apr 15, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Images taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera 1 on board ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter. The images were taken by at 14:18 CEST and at 14:38 CEST, following launch at 14:14 CEST. © ESA/Juice/JMC CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Featured on ESA website...
Jun 27, 2022 | Highlight, Space mission
Sequence of images taken by MCSE’s monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of its destination planet Mercury on 23 June 2022. Featured on ESA website...
Jun 25, 2022 | Highlight, Space mission
Image gallery with annotated and non-annotated versions of the images taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera 2 on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury. Featured on ESA website...
Jun 23, 2022 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera 2 on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury. The image was taken at 09:49:22 UTC when the spacecraft was within about 920 km from the surface of Mercury. Closest approach of about 200 km took place...
