Antenna Unstuck on Jupiter-bound Spacecraft.

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Antenna Unstuck on Jupiter-bound Spacecraft.
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Flight controllers in Germany have successfully freed a 52-foot radar antenna on the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft, which is on a decade-long mission to explore Jupiter's moons. The antenna had been stuck due to a tiny pin that refused to budge. The spacecraft will attempt to go into orbit around Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. Meanwhile, NASA's Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, which was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole, has been abandoned after struggling unsuccessfully for months to get into orbit around the moon.

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