The one glitch was a software issue that prevented the probe from prioritising its data return to concentrate on the pictures form the period of closest approach.

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Nolo has asked the Texas Supreme Court to force the Unauthorized Practice committee to divulge the details of its probe, such as which Nolo software titles are being investigated and who, if anyone, filed a complaint.

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But by using compression software and getting Galileo to record data on its tape-recorder for later transmission, almost all of the probe's objectives have still been achieved.

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