Dec 1 1995
From The Space Library
NASA's Galileo spacecraft has confirmed it has reached the inside of Jupiter's magnetosphere. Direct measurements of the Jupiter system may now begin. Final tuning of the flight path is scheduled for December 2. On December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. An hour after the probe mission is completed, Galileo will begin to fire its onboard rocket beginning a two year mission of close-up studies of the planet's large moons, Jupiter itself, and the magnetosphere. The spacecraft was launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis and an Interim Upper Stage (INERTIAL UPPER STAGE) on October 18, 1989. (NASA Releases 95-207 & 215; NY Times, Dec 3/95, Dec 7/95, Dec 8/95 & Dec 11/95; W Post, Dec 4/95, Dec 8/95 & Dec 11/95; USA Today, Dec 1/95, Dec 7/95 & Dec 8/95; Fla Today, Dec 7/95; WSJ, Dec 7/95; Time, Dec 11/95; Newsweek, Dec 18/95; Avn, Nov 27/95, Dec 4/95 & Dec 11/95; Science, Dec 15/95)
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