Galileo loses data from a Europa flyby after anomaly

NASA's Galileo Jupiter probe lost almost all of the data it gathered during a flyby of the icy moon Europa on Monday after an anomaly that apparently was triggered by debris in the slip ring between the two halves of the spacecraft. Galileo's redundant command and data subsystems (CDS) "worked...

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