From NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.govWed Nov  8 13:14:58 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 12:06:40 -0500
From: NASA HQ Public Affairs Office <NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.gov>
To: press-release-com@mercury.hq.nasa.gov
Subject: Briefings Set to Preview Galileo's Arrival at Jupiter

Douglas Isbell
Headquarters, Washington, DC               November 7, 1995
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Franklin O'Donnell
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone:  818/354-5011)

Ann Hutchison
Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
(Phone: 415/604-4968)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N95-74

BRIEFINGS SET TO PREVIEW GALILEO'S ARRIVAL AT JUPITER

        News briefings for the upcoming arrival of NASA's 
Galileo spacecraft to the planet Jupiter will be broadcast 
on NASA Television during the next two weeks. The planned 
briefings are:

-     Thursday, Nov. 9, 1 p.m. EST
     (originating from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
     Pasadena, CA)  

     Mission engineers and scientists will describe mission 
events set for Dec. 7 when Galileo's atmospheric probe will 
parachute into the clouds of the giant planet. The Galileo 
orbiter spacecraft will then fire an onboard rocket engine 
to slow itself down enough to be captured into orbit around 
Jupiter.  Press room arrangements, news updates, television 
schedules and other media services planned for Dec. 7 also 
will be described.  

-     Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1:30 p.m. EST 
      (originating from NASA's Ames Research Center,    
      Mountain View, CA)

     Scientific investigations to be conducted by Galileo's 
atmospheric probe will be explained. 

      A day-long Jupiter atmospheric science workshop will 
be held at Ames on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 1-7:30 p.m. EST.   
This workshop will not be televised.
        
     The briefings will be carried live on NASA Television 
via Spacenet 2 Transponder 5, Channel 9, at 69 degrees west 
longitude frequency at 3880.0 megahertz,  audio at 6.8 megahertz.

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