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Today's featured article Artist's impression of Galileo's arrival at Jupiter The Galileo project was an American robotic space program that studied Jupiter and its moons (including Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), 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 launched in 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission. Despite suffering major antenna problems, Galileo achieved the first asteroid flyby (of 951 Gaspra), discovered the first asteroid moon (Dactyl, around 243 Ida), and observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision with Jupiter. After gravity-assisted flybys of Venus and Earth, Galileo became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. It then launched the first probe to directly measure Jupiter's atmosphere. In 2003, the mission was terminated by sending the orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere to eliminate the possibility of contaminating the Jovian moons with terrestrial bacteria. (Full article...) Recently featured: Changi Airport MRT station New York Dolls Battle of Glasgow, Missouri In the news Daron Acemoglu Yahya Sinwar, the acting leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu (pictured), Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. Kenyan Ruth Chepng'etich breaks the women's marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Victoria Roshchyna Liam Payne Leif Segerstam Mike Jackson G. N. Saibaba Thomas J. Donohue Things to do Help Make New Articles. Help Edit Articles. Lots of Articles. Expand stubs about tanks. Wikipedia Interests World War 1 World War 2 Korean War Vietnam War Firearms Tanks Articles I Created Battles First Battle of Saigon AFV ARL 44 Char D2 Char D1 T-43 tank Char G1 Heavy Tank T29 SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun Type 95 Heavy Tank P107 BA-21 Modern Tanks Images Images I Uploaded. World's Militaries