That work will take an additional three days. The current launch date of December 2 is now under review. The launch has already slipped from October because of shuttle wiring concerns. This week on Galileo NASA's Galileo probe passes the half-way point between encounters as it flies through apojove on Wednesday, the point at which the spacecraft is furthest from Jupiter in a given orbit. Galileo continues to return science data to Earth, as it starts heading back toward the heart of the Jupiter system and its next, even more daring, flyby of Io.
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