Jupiter-bound spacecraft's stuck antenna finally freed.

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The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, which is on a decade-long voyage to Jupiter, has successfully freed a crucial radar antenna that was jammed for nearly a month. The radar antenna will be used to peer deep beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life. Meanwhile, NASA's Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, which was launched in December to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole, has been called off after struggling unsuccessfully for months to get into orbit around the moon.

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