Cassini−Huygens
Also known as Cassini–Huygens, Cassini-Huygens, Cassini-Huygens mission
Cassini–Huygens ( ), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017. The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassin
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Cassini–Huygens was a joint space mission by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency that sent a robotic spacecraft to orbit Saturn and study the planet, its rings, and moons from 2004 to 2017. The mission included NASA's Cassini probe, which orbited Saturn, and ESA's Huygens lander, which touched down on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, making it the first spacecraft to successfully orbit Saturn.
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47 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Planning and development
- NASA and JPL
- Naming
- Objectives
- Destinations
- History
- Spacecraft design
- Instruments
- Summary
- Description
- Plutonium power source
- Telemetry
- ''Huygens'' probe
- Selected events and discoveries
- Venus and Earth fly-bys and the cruise to Jupiter
- Jupiter flyby
- Tests of general relativity
- New moons of Saturn
- Phoebe flyby
- Saturn rotation
- Orbiting Saturn
- Titan flybys
- ''Huygens'' lands on Titan
- Enceladus flybys
- Radio occultations of Saturn's rings
- Spokes in rings verified
- Lakes of Titan
- Saturn hurricane
- Iapetus flyby
- Mission extension
- Second mission extension
- Great Storm of 2010 and aftermath
- Venus transit
- ''The Day the Earth Smiled''
- Rhea flyby
- Hyperion flyby
- Dione flyby
- Hexagon changes color
- Grand Finale and destruction
- Missions
- Glossary
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Cassini–Huygens ( ), commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini was the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter its orbit, where it stayed from 2004 to 2017. The two craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens.
Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cassini was active in space for nearly 20 years, spending almost 7 years in transit and 13 years orbiting Saturn, studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004.
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