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... in Florida protested the launch aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis next month of the Galileo Spacecraft Galileo space probe, which would carry two plutonium-fueled radioisotope thermoelectric generators. The protesters claimed an ... that the chances of a plutonium leak in the event of an accident was negligible. Galileo Spacecraft Galileo was scheduled to reach Jupiter in late 1995. (AP, Sep 12/89; UPI, Sep ...

The Galileo Spacecraft Galileo spacecraft, launched from Space Shuttle Atlantis October 18, 1989, fired its thrusters so it could ... system was necessary because the rocket that launched the craft was too weak to propel Galileo Spacecraft Galileo directly on its two-year trip to Jupiter. (Fla Today, Nov 14/90; P ...

... /91) NASA engineers worried over data indicating that the critical 16-foot main antenna of Galileo Spacecraft Galileo , essential for the Jupiter probe, may have failed to unfold properly. Such a failure ... data from Jupiter to Earth and reduce the number of photographs that could be sent. Galileo Spacecraft Galileo was unique among spacecraft launched to date in that it has a "dual spin ...

... , feared it might be necessary to send a communications satellite to Jupiter to relay Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's discoveries to Earth. It would take three years for such a satellite to reach ... available. However, the engineers still hoped to resolve the problem of the failure of Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's high-gain antenna to open properly. Six nearly identical antennas were used on NASA ...

... assured of strict safeguards. (W Post, May 1/91; NY Times, May 1/91) Galileo Spacecraft Galileo , the Jupiter survey spacecraft, was scheduled to fly-by the asteroid Gaspra on October 29. Such an encounter would be a first and was complicated by the failure of Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's antenna to deploy completely so that communications were minimized. (CSM, May 1/91 ...

... attempt the preceding week to release the antenna of spacecraft Galileo Spacecraft Galileo , it would try again in December 1991 when Galileo Spacecraft Galileo would be farther from the sun and thus cooler. (NASA ...

... that scientists studying data from spacecraft Galileo Spacecraft Galileo concluded there were lightning storms on Venus. Science magazine just published eight scientific articles based on Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's Venus observations. (NASA Release 91 ...

... ) William J. O'Neil, manager of the $1.4 billion Galileo Spacecraft Galileo project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , said Galileo Spacecraft Galileo fired its thrusters to put it on a course to ...

... Galileo Spacecraft Galileo 's approach to the asteroid Gaspra, within which it was scheduled to fly 1,000 miles, making the first relatively close-up pictures of an asteroid. On October 29, Galileo Spacecraft Galileo took photographs of Gaspra as it flew by, but because its main antenna remained jammed ...

... NASA's latest effort to free a stuck main antenna aboard the Galileo Spacecraft Galileo space probe had failed. Galileo Spacecraft Galileo , en route to Jupiter for a 1995-97 mapping mission, had a ...

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