2026
CLM-FIRST-JUPITER-ORBITER= 1995CONSTRUCTIONMission record from NASA/JPL.Evidence quality: PAPER · Source: NASA — Galileo mission — First spacecraft to orbit Jupiter ↗
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Limits RegistryNASA's Galileo entered orbit around Jupiter on 7 December 1995, the same day its atmospheric probe became the first to plunge into a giant planet's atmosphere. Over almost eight years it found strong evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa before being deliberately crashed into Jupiter on 21 September 2003.
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NASA's Galileo entered orbit around Jupiter on 7 December 1995, the same day its atmospheric probe became the first to plunge into a giant planet's atmosphere. Over almost eight years it found strong evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa before being deliberately crashed into Jupiter on 21 September 2003.
The year a spacecraft first entered orbit around Jupiter, the first orbit of an outer planet.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-JUPITER-ORBITER. First spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. 2026.