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Recently, the magnetometer's boom and several antennas for the spacecraft's radar instrument were deployed and will remain extended from the spacecraft for the full duration of the mission. The radar instrument includes four high-frequency antennas that extend crosswise from the solar arrays, each measuring 57.7 feet long, and eight rectangular very-high-frequency antennas, each 9 feet long. Engineering data transmitted back from the spacecraft allows the mission team to assess how the hardware is operating.
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