Orbiter

Galileo

NASA

Orbited Jupiter for eight years, dropped a probe into its clouds, and was steered into Jupiter in 2003.

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The flight

  1. October 19, 1989

    Launch

  2. February 10, 1990

    Flies past Venus, 22,179 km away

  3. December 8, 1990

    Flies past Earth, 7,339 km away

  4. December 8, 1992

    Flies past Moon, 112,006 km away

  5. December 8, 1992

    Flies past Earth, 6,899 km away

  6. September 12, 1995

    Arrives at Jupiter

  7. September 29, 2003

    JPL’s track of it ends

From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.

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