Galileo

1989 · NASA · Jupiter · Completed

Agency: NASA
Status: Completed
End Date: 2003-09-21
Destination: Jupiter
Launch Date: 1989-10-18

Objective

Its high-gain antenna never unfurled, cutting the data rate by a factor of ten thousand. The mission was salvaged by rewriting the onboard compression from Earth, and it still found evidence for an ocean under Europa's ice.

Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

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