Juice flyby of Ganymede (artist’s impression) ESA (acknowledgement: ATG Medialab)īut when the command was given, cameras on the spacecraft showed that the antenna didn’t budge. On April 17, the team on the ground gave the command to activate an actuator which should have moved a pin to open a bracket and let sections of the antenna deploy into place. It was folded up on the side of the spacecraft for launch and should have deployed when it was unlatched once Juice was in space. The antenna that failed to deploy was the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, a 16-meter-long radar instrument that will be used to study the icy crusts of Jupiter’s moons like Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. After several weeks of work and various attempts at fixes, the Juice team succeeded in getting the antenna deployed, and now ESA has shared more information about the problem and how it was solved. The launch went off smoothly, but there was a problem during the spacecraft deployment phase: an antenna was stuck and wasn’t deploying properly. Staying about 50km away from college, I had to specially visit college for that piece of information.Earlier this year, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Juice spacecraft launched on its mission to investigate the icy moons of Jupiter.

All the procedures could have been made quicker than usual in this unusual year, helping the colleges to commence as soon as possible and the syllabus to be started earlier.Ī list of required documents and procedures, amount of applicable fees to be paid should have been mentioned in the CET website, for each respective college.

I believe more than an excess time was provided for each of the steps inculcated in the Admission process. The admission process began in November and is expected to end in January. In 2021 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the MHT CET entrance was held in September, four months later than usual. 1000 were to be paid for accepting the allotted seat through online mode. For VJTI, I was the 7th one selected for Mechanical with a rank of 1035. As documents were verified, we had to submit an option form, describing the preferences of colleges. Documents were to be uploaded to the website for verification.

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