Galileo

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1. Story
2. The first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet, ending its mission by deliberate entry into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Operated by NASA; launched 1989-10-18; completed. Encounter dates are the operator’s mission record; the encounter order is an order, not a trajectory, and Atlas draws no path for it.
3. Knowledge
4. Jupiter
5. Venus
6. Galileo
7. Connections
8. Jupiter
9. Venus
10. Galileo takes a gravity assist at Venus
11. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
12. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
13. Voyager 1
14. Voyager 2
15. Io
16. The Grand Tour alignment
17. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
18. Active volcanism found on Io
19. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
20. Pioneer 10
21. Pioneer 11
22. Galileo
23. Cassini–Huygens
24. New Horizons
25. Juno
26. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
27. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
28. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
29. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
30. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
31. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
32. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
33. Mariner 2
34. Mariner 10
35. Galileo
36. Mariner 2 passes Venus — the first successful planetary flyby
37. Mariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
38. Galileo takes a gravity assist at Venus
39. Evidence
40. Launch, Venus gravity assist, Jupiter orbit insertion and the 2003 atmospheric-entry end of mission.