Questions about the Galileo Spacecraft

Subcategories

Antenna

• Techniques to support low gain

• Spinning the hga

• Was jam mode identified during testing?

• Purpose of low gain antenna

• Problem opening antenna

• Low-gain antenna defined

• High-gain antenna defined

• Could joi burn unstick the hig

• Antenna materials

Galileo Construction Time

• Was it hard to make galileo

External Equipment Location

• Probe position on orbiter

• Position of extreme ultraviolet instrument

• Camera location

Fuel

• Fuel type

• Fuel propellant

Galileo's Capabilities

• Images of probe from orbiter

• Galileo's ability to detect life

• Galileo observing Saturn and Titan

• Can galileo detect the remnants of comet

• Spinoff Technology

Orbiter Status: After Probe Entry

• Orbiter status after probe entry

• Galileo's fate after two years

Spacecraft Power Supply

• Power for spacecraft

• Plutonium vs solar

Pressure and Temperature Limits

• Pressure and temperature inside Galileo

Radio Link

• Occultation of orbiter by juptiter

Spacecraft Speed

• Speed of the spacecraft

• Probe speed

System Software

• Orbital Computer System

• Programmable communications technology

• Software

• Viewing software code

Testing Galileo

• Experiments

Spacecraft Travel Time

• Time needed for trip to jupiter

• How long to get to Neptune

• Distance the probe traveled