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Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Galileo spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe. It was delivered into Earth orbit on October 18, 1989, by Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission, and arrived at Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after gravity assist flybys of Venus and Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. The spacecraft then launched the first probe to directly measure its atmosphere. Despite suffering major antenna problems, Galileo achieved the first asteroid flyby, of 951 Gaspra, and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida. In 1994, Galileo observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision with Jupiter.

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Galileo program; Galileo project; Jupiter Orbiter Probe mission
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center, 
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    commonsimageShuttle-Centaur with Galileo Commons
    commonsimageGalileo Energetic Particles Detector Commons
    commonsimageGalileo - UVS photo - uvs1 Commons
    commonsimageGalielo - EPD photo - epd1 Commons
    commonsimageGalileo Heavy Ion Counter Commons
    commonsimageGalileo - PLS photo - pls1 Commons
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