Update Sept. 15: In 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission's epic journey to Saturn began when it launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 2004, the probe arrived in orbit around Saturn ...

The Cassini mission has been an unequivocal success — but its fate was not always certain. This is the story of how it got off the ground, told by the people who were there.

The Cassini-Huygens mission increased our understanding of the planet’s rings and moons Aaron Boorstein - Staff Contributor One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a ...

Cassini the mothership; Huygens the lander. On Oct. 15, 1997, the $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a joint endeavor among NASA, ESA and the ...

On October 15, 1997, the first dedicated mission to the planet Saturn, NASA's Cassini, was launched. Intended to view the ringed planet, take images and spectra of the world, its rings and its ...

Cassini-Huygens is an international NASA/ESA mission with the participation of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) launched by a Titan IVB/Centaur launch vehicle on 15 October 1997, that will reach ...

It was launched in 1997 as a ride-along of the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission with the task of descending by parachute into the methane atmosphere of Titan and, if it survived, sending back ...

NASA is giving 5th to 12th grade students the opportunity to study Saturn and make decisions, just as scientists on the Cassini-Huygens mission do on a daily basis.

For example, the Cassini-Huygens mission was first proposed in 1982 and wasn't launched until 1997, during which time it endured several years of studies and swapped between a solo NASA mission or ...