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this 9-page NASA fact sheet about the
circa 1995-2003 Galileo mission at Jupiter
is pretty informative
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/galileo0309.pdf
also there's this longer document with several chapters
here are links to chapters 6 and 8
Chapter 6 has a diagram of arrival day
which included an Io flyby and
the dropped probe parachuting into the atmosphere
and a JOI burn at perijove (the first orbit was a long 7 months)
Chapter 8 has a petal diagram for the first dozen or so orbits
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/tour/6TOUR.pdf
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/tour/8TOUR.pdf
this document says the main (400 Newton) engine was used 3 times
on the way there (ODM)
at first perijove (JOI)
at first apojove (PJR)
there were a dozen or so smaller (10 Newton) engines
there were close moon flybys at each of the subsequent 35 or so orbits except for one orbit (number 5) which happened when
Jupiter was behind the sun
lot of interesting description of the mission and the science results
cant begin to summarize. You may have already seen similarly detailed source material on Galileo, I had not.
circa 1995-2003 Galileo mission at Jupiter
is pretty informative
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/galileo0309.pdf
also there's this longer document with several chapters
here are links to chapters 6 and 8
Chapter 6 has a diagram of arrival day
which included an Io flyby and
the dropped probe parachuting into the atmosphere
and a JOI burn at perijove (the first orbit was a long 7 months)
Chapter 8 has a petal diagram for the first dozen or so orbits
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/tour/6TOUR.pdf
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/tour/8TOUR.pdf
this document says the main (400 Newton) engine was used 3 times
on the way there (ODM)
at first perijove (JOI)
at first apojove (PJR)
there were a dozen or so smaller (10 Newton) engines
there were close moon flybys at each of the subsequent 35 or so orbits except for one orbit (number 5) which happened when
Jupiter was behind the sun
lot of interesting description of the mission and the science results
cant begin to summarize. You may have already seen similarly detailed source material on Galileo, I had not.