VIPER Aft Cameras

VIPER Aft Cameras

Tthe Aft cameras can be seen on VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, while the team is making preparations for environmental testing of the rover. (source: NASA; image credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas). Featured on NASA...
All VIPER Flight Instruments Installed!

All VIPER Flight Instruments Installed!

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)....
Cameras integration on VIPER

Cameras integration on VIPER

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...
BepiColombo’s Mercury flyby in 3D

BepiColombo’s Mercury flyby in 3D

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...
Video of BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby

Video of BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby

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...
JUICE’s RIME antenna deploys

JUICE’s RIME antenna deploys

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...