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.

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