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... high-intensity quartz lamps, which simulated the solar effects Galileo would experience in space. Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) personnel would move Galileo in about two weeks to the spacecraft assembly facility for ... . Following spacecraft disassembly, researchers would simulate different operational phases of the mission for spacecraft testing. Galileo was composed of a planetary orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe for investigations of the ...

... Jupiter, originally scheduled for 1982, would be launched in 1989. The 5,870-pound untended Galileo Spacecraft Galileo spacecraft was to be launched from the Shuttle Discovery . After the Challenger accident, NASA ... in order to use the gravitational force of Venus and Earth to propel Galileo Spacecraft Galileo toward Jupiter. The Galileo Spacecraft Galileo mission was expected to reach Jupiter in 1995. Upon reaching Jupiter, the ...

... had illegally delayed release of health and safety risk assessments of a potential accident involving Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's plutonium-fueled radioisotope thermal generators. The groups filing suit were the Florida Coalition ... the space agency continued to carry on with preparations for the planned launch of Atlantis - Galileo Spacecraft Galileo on October 12. The suit was subsequently dismissed by the court during its preliminary ...

... , the Galileo Spacecraft Galileo Jupiter space probe made the first course corrections by briefly firing its thrusters. This was the first of about 30 course corrections to be undertaken by Galileo Spacecraft Galileo during its five-year trip to Jupiter. (NASA STS-34 Press Kit, Oct/89; NASA Facts: STS-34 Galileo Spacecraft Galileo - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC Release ...

... for the first-ever flyby of an asteroid next October. To perform the maneuver, Galileo Spacecraft Galileo would fire its small thrusters on and off during a three and one half hour ... about five miles per hour. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Pasadena, California, manages the Galileo Spacecraft Galileo project. (NASA Release 91-43) NASA issued a summary fact sheet on its earth science ...

... that a computer glitch temporarily put the $1.5 billion Galileo Spacecraft Galileo Jupiter probe into an electronic state of hibernation. Galileo Spacecraft Galileo is in an elliptical orbit around the sun and was ... spacecraft computers to order the "safing mode" but no damage was apparent. Engineers said Galileo Spacecraft Galileo should be back in full operation by the time of the next computer commands in ...

... 9/91) Several media articles dealt with attempts to rescue spacecraft Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's mission. The Los Angeles Times described Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's flight, which was functioning perfectly toward Jupiter, apart from ... Technology for NASA, to free the antenna, thus salvaging the mission. If efforts failed, Galileo Spacecraft Galileo would be unable to communicate discoveries to scientists because the craft's small antennas could ...

... main antenna on the Jupiter-bound Galileo Spacecraft Galileo spacecraft, but the Agency said it would try different repair methods next year. Engineers turned Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's main antenna toward the Sun to ... . Despite the loss of the main antenna, NASA scientists expected to complete 70 percent of Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's mission by using a small antenna. The small antenna, however, is capable of ...

... launch three years ago showed that the probe's systems were in good working order. Galileo Spacecraft Galileo was scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in early December 1995. A major milestone in space communications was achieved recently when NASA scientists success-fully transmitted laser signals to Galileo Spacecraft Galileo at a distance of 1.3 million miles. (NASA Releases 92-224 and 92 ...

... asteroid on August 28 and was scheduled to arrive at Jupiter on December 5, 1995. Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's controllers at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) in ... high-gain antenna. If their attempts were unsuccessful, the craft's controllers would use Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's low-gain antenna to gather data, including data from a probe that would descend ...

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