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Galileo Nearing Its End

Posted by michael on from the look-out-below dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Mission operations for the Galileo space probe, currently orbiting Jupiter, are scheduled to be shut down at the end of this month. Once a month thereafter scientists will check on the probe until September when the probe will be ordered to crash into Jupiter. The $1.5 billion mission met 70 percent of its science objectives and made a number of serendipitous discoveries along the way -- despite a range of problems."

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  1. Only 70%? by EvilSporkMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    70% is simply not good enough. Imagine if you only made correct change 70% of the time, or tried to get into college with a 70% average. More evidence that our government is incompetent.

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