PIA00727: Deployment of Galileo and the IUS

Target Name: Earth Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Galileo Spacecraft: Galileo Orbiter Space Shuttle Product Size: 620 samples x 480 lines Produced By: Kennedy Space Center Producer ID: P35213 Addition Date: 1997-09-10 Primary Data Set: Galileo EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00727.tif (628.2 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00727.jpg (37.42 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: The Galileo spacecraft and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster were deployed from the cargo bay of STS-34 Atlantis. Deployment occurred at 7:15 P.M. EDT on October 18, 1989. Beginning an hour after deployment, two rocket stages of the IUS fired in succession. Galileo separated from the IUS' second stage at 9:05 P.M. and began its ballistic flight to Venus for the first of three gravity-assisted flybys, which will take Galileo to Jupiter. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA'is Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. This image and other images and data received from Galileo are posted on the World Wide Web, on the Galileo mission home page at URL http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/KSC