Spacecraft

Galileo

Space Probe

Citation Formats

General Reference

Space and Astronomy Atlas. "Galileo." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/galileo-spacecraft.

APA Style

Space and Astronomy Atlas. (n.d.). Galileo. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/galileo-spacecraft

BibTeX

@misc{spaceandastronomyatlas-galileo,
  author = {Space and Astronomy Atlas},
  title = {Galileo},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/galileo-spacecraft},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. It consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet after arriving at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, following gravity-assist flybys of Venus and Earth. It was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm providing the propulsion module and Hughes Aircraft Company building the atmospheric probe.

Facts

Launch Date

1989-10-18 1

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