Apr 2, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
NASA’s team install the mast atop of VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. (source: NASA; image credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas). Featured on NASA website...
Feb 29, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
NASA’s VIPER team has completed the installation of all of VIPER’s flight instruments, and the rover is more than 80% built. One of the HazCams developped by MCSE can be seen on the right, partially hidden. (source: NASA; image credit: NASA/Bill Stafford)....
Feb 8, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
NASA’s VIPER team during integration activities on the rover. Below is a screenshot from a video stream where with one of the mounted HazCams circled. The other HazCams are mounted too, but blocked from view by the structure. The mast with the NavCams is on the...
Jun 23, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board BepiColombo mission during Mercury’s third flyby on 19 June 2023. Taken from a distance of about 2 982 km, the image showcases the impressive 600 km-long Beagle Rupes scarp. Just below centre, the newly...
Jun 22, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Special flyover of geologically rich terrain taken by MCSE’s monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its third close flyby of its destination planet Mercury on 19 June 2023. Featured on ESA website...
Jun 20, 2023 | Highlight, Space mission
Mercury flyby image gallery with annotated and non-annotated versions of the images taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury. Featured on ESA website...
May 13, 2023 | Space mission
On 12 May RIME was finally jolted into life when the flight control team fired a mechanical device called a ‘non-explosive actuator’ (NEA), located in the jammed bracket. This delivered a shock that moved the pin by a matter of millimetres and allowed the antenna to...
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,...
