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GALILEO STATUS 1/4/94: The spacecraft and Earth are once again approaching
each other, although Galileo continues to recede from the Sun on
its way to Jupiter. The distances are 654 million kilometers
(406 million miles) from Earth, 560 million kilometers (348
million miles) from the Sun. Distance to Earth will reach a
minimum in early May and then start to increase. Playback of
data from Galileo's encounter with the asteroid Ida, begun last
September, will resume in spring 1994 at 40 bits per second (the
rate is now 10 bits per second). Galileo will go into orbit
around Jupiter and relay data from a probe in its atmosphere on
December 7, 1995. Spacecraft condition is excellent, except that
the high-gain antenna is still only partly deployed; the mission
team is planning to use the low-gain antenna for the Jupiter
mission. Galileo was launched October 18, 1989, flew by Venus in
1990 and Earth in 1990 and 1992 for gravity assists, and flew by
the asteroid Gaspra in October 1991 and Ida in August 1993.
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