{"id":163800,"date":"2023-05-13T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/stuck-antenna-freed-on-jupiter-bound-spacecraft"},"modified":"2023-05-13T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:23:42","slug":"stuck-antenna-freed-on-jupiter-bound-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/stuck-antenna-freed-on-jupiter-bound-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Stuck antenna freed on Jupiter-bound spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stuck-antenna-freed-on-jupiter-bound-spacecraft3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crucial radar antenna on a European spacecraft bound for Jupiter is no longer jammed.<\/p>\n<p>Flight controllers in Germany freed the 52-foot (16-meter) antenna Friday after nearly a month of effort.<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, nicknamed Juice, blasted off in April on a decade-long voyage. Soon after <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/launch\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">launch<\/a>, a tiny pin refused to budge and prevented the antenna from fully opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crucial radar antenna on a European spacecraft bound for Jupiter is no longer jammed. Flight controllers in Germany freed the 52-foot (16-meter) antenna Friday after nearly a month of effort. The European Space Agency\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, nicknamed Juice, blasted off in April on a decade-long voyage. Soon after launch, a tiny pin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}