Galileo Misses Europa Data

The Galileo spacecraft went into a ``safe'' mode twice during the Nov. 22 flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa, and missed most of the science data. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory spacecraft also missed data two flybys ago on July 20, again due to its entering a safe mode (AW&ST Aug. 3, p. 31). But the...

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