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Galileo (spacecraft)

NASA robotic space probe that studied the Jupiter system, as well as asteroids Gaspra and Ida

7 dated entries naming Galileo (spacecraft), drawn from 7 separate years between 1989 CE and 2003 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1989October 18 – NASA launches the uncrewed Galileo orbiter on a mission to study the planet Jupiter, via Atlantis mission STS-34.source
  • 1991October 29 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.source
  • 1995December 7 – NASA's Galileo probe enters Jupiter's atmosphere.source
  • 1996August 13 – Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons.source
  • 1998March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.source

21st century

  • 2001October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 181 km of Jupiter's moon Io.source
  • 2003September 21 – NASA ends the Galileo probe mission after nearly 14 years by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.source

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