Galileo
Space probe
Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and an entry probe. Wikipedia
Cost: 1.6 billion USD
Launch date: October 18, 1989
Launch site: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Orbit height: 20,505 mi
Speed on orbit: 29.83 miles/s
Manufacturers: Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
Max speed: 108,000 mph
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It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis, during STS-34. Galileo arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after ...
experiment on the spacecraft's first and fourteenth orbits through the Jupiter system, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Image scale is 1.6 kilometers per pixel. ...
Oct 14, 2021 · This reprocessed colour view of Jupiter's moon Europa was made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. Credit:.
Deployed from STS-34 18 Oct 1989. · The Galileo spacecraft flew 960 km from Earth at 20:35 UT on Dec 8, 1990 in a gravity assist maneuver. · The Antenna release ...