The probe will have a distinctive shape
The 10 carbon fiber-reinforced honeycomb panels will unfold once JUICE gets to space, and when they do, they’ll create two cross-like shapes, one on each side of the probe. The two solar arrays will deploy some 50 minutes after launch, in a process that should take about one minute. The medium-gain antenna, which will emerge 16 hours into the mission, will be used during the flybys of the moons and also link the probe to controllers on Earth when the spacecraft’s larger antenna is being leveraged as a sunshield.
