Galileo

Galileo — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Galileo in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

The first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, Galileo revealed a likely ocean inside Europa before being deliberately sent to burn up in the giant’s clouds.

Launched

18 Oct 1989

Status

Mission ended 2003 — plunged into Jupiter

Explore Galileo in 3D

Explore Galileo along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.