Galileo Heads Towards Second Gravity Assist

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 12:11 in Astronomy & Space

The Galileo spacecraft, scheduled to go into orbit around Jupiter in December 1995, is within 2 million miles and four days of the second of three planetary gravity assists designed to get it there.

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