The craft carried the Cassini orbiter, which would eventually be placed into Saturn's orbit, and the Huygens probe, destined for Titan. Venus flybys, 1998-1999 Cassini passed Venus for the first ...

Cassini-Huygens Historic ... July 30, 2024. The European Space Agency recalls the historic landing on the Saturn moon and the mission that made it possible. Credit ... A timeline of tuition ...

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.

8.4K. Exactly 38 years to the day after Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to encounter the planet Saturn, NASA’s flagship mission to the ringed planet, Cassini, is entering the final two ...

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft showed us a new view of the Saturn system. But it took a long road to get there, from mission development to its launch 25 years ago.

This Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, the long and successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons will come to an end when the spacecraft plunges into Saturn's cloud tops.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sept. 15, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will complete its remarkable story of exploration with ...

For in depth coverage of Huygens at Titan and the Cassini mission, including the first sounds from an alien moon, visit The Planetary Society’s website at or call on Society experts for inter… ...

All in all, more than 5,000 people from 17 countries worked on the Cassini-Huygens mission in some capacity. Cassini has logged 4.9 billion miles, captured 453,048 images and resulted in the ...

10.4K. Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini dived one last time for Saturn’s atmosphere.

Cassini’s mission was to investigate Saturn and its system, while Huygens’ was to explore Titan, the planet’s largest moon. The Huygens probe separated from Cassini in late December 2004.

Crashing Cassini : 1A It's the end of an era in space exploration: the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's 20-year mission to Saturn is about to end with a bang — and a ball of fire. You may not know ...