March 4, 2003 | After 13 years in space and 34 orbits around Jupiter,
the Galileo spacecraft has reached the end of its mission. On
February 28th, NASA controllers turned off Galileo's memory-bank tape
recorder and transmission of stored data to Earth stopped. Currently
looping around in a highly elliptical orbit, the aged craft is set to
crash into Jupiter's Equatorial Zone on September 21, 2003.
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The full article is at:
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_888_1.asp
Michael
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