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After a decade long hiatus in launches beyond Earth orbit, NASA’s planetary exploration program is again moving forward, beginning with the Magellan launch to Venus in May 1989 and the Galileo launch to Jupiter in October 1989. These spacecraft will reach their targets in August 1990 and December 1995, respectively. Both are missions of longstanding priority, Magellan to provide the first global high resolution mapping of the cloud-shrouded Venus surface, Galileo to make comprehensive measurements of the Jovian system in follow-up to the 1979/1980 Voyager flybys.
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Briggs, G.A. (1990). Future Solar System Missions. In: Kondo, Y. (eds) Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 166. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3454-5_39
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