First to Achieve Orbit Around Jupiter

NASA's Galileo probe became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, arriving in December 1995 and conducting a multi-year study of the planet and its moons, including deploying a probe into its atmosphere.

Sources

• Exploration of Jupiter - Wikipedia
• Missions to Jupiter - JUICE - ESA Cosmos
• planetary.org
• Jupiter from a historical perspective and as a target of spacecraft
• planetary.org
• spacecenter.org

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