"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

When Galileo was almost out of fuel, NASA deliberately sent the spacecraft on a suicide plunge into Jupiter on Sept. 21, 2003. The sacrifice, the agency said, was necessary to protect Europa ...

Immediately after the spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on Dec. 7, 1995, and during the first orbit of the planet, Galileo parachuted an instrumented titanium probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to ...

Galileo spacecraft closing in for death plunge to Jupiter / 3 billion-mile, 14-year trek to meet fiery climax Sunday. By David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Sep 20, 2003.

Close to Jupiter, Galileo released a probe that hit the planet's atmosphere at more than 106,000 mph. The probe worked for nearly an hour, ...

Galileo's main mission ended in 1997, but NASA has kept the project going -- until now. Claudia Alexander, Galileo's final project manager, says NASA officials worried that the spacecraft's orbit ...

On November 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Galileo flew ...

NASAs aging Galileo spacecraft concluded its 14-year, $1.5 billion exploration of Jupiter and its moons on Sunday with a streaking suicide plunge into the planets turbulent atmosphere.

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited ...