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Galileo mission

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The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995.

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The Galileo spacecraft was intentionally commanded to crash into Jupiter on September 21, 2003

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Galileo Probe

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RE: Galileo mission

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Anniversary of the Galileo spacecraft's Io flyby on the 17th January, 2002..

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The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, a little more than six years later, via gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth.
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20th Anniversary of the Galileo Asteroid Gaspra Flyby in 1991

On October 29, 1991, two months after entering the asteroid belt, Galileo performed the first ever asteroid encounter by passing about 1,600 kilometres from 951 Gaspra at a relative speed of about 8 kilometres per second. Several pictures of Gaspra were taken along with measurements using the NIMS instrument to indicate composition and physical properties. The last (and best) two images were played back to Earth in November 1991 and June 1992.
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Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the astronomer and Renaissance pioneer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18, 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
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Grand Explorations: Galileo - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

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Galileo's end
Once its fuel supply was nearly depleted, Galileo was intentionally commanded to crash into Jupiter to eliminate any chance of a future impact with Europa that could contaminate the icy moon. At the completion of its 35th and final circuit around the Jovian system, Galileo impacted the gas giant in darkness just south of the equator on September 21, 2003, at 18:57 GMT, at a speed of approximately 48.26 kilometres per second.
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