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Galileo Status Report

Galileo Status Report

PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

GALILEO MISSION STATUS

December 7, 1995
6:10 p.m.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Jupiter after its six-year trip through the solar system.

Project engineers report the spacecraft's rocket fired on time at 5:20 p.m. PST and stopped after 49 minutes as planned at 6:08 p.m. PST, enabling the spacecraft to enter orbit around the giant planet and begin its two-year mission of scientific studies.

Launched October 18, 1989, Galileo has traveled 3.7 billion kilometers (2.3 billion miles) in a looping path through the solar system to reach Jupiter, which is 934 million kilometers (580 million miles) away from Earth.