CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — While weather was a factor against the launch, SpaceX was able to send up two of Europe’s Galileo satellites on Tuesday night. The Falcon 9 rocket sent up the ...
On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo ...
In a mission that changed our understanding of gas giants, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made history not just in orbit but also in its dramatic descent into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Launched in October 1989 ...
Planet Jupiter (WHTM) Launched in 1989, the Galileo mission to explore the planet Jupiter ended on September 21, 2003, when the probe was deliberately destroyed. It happened because of one of the ...
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft has returned infrared imagery of a new hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io that was the source of a towering plume in August 2001, indicating a sulfur-dioxide concentration that ...