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...Cassini's Voyage Experience the Cassini voyage from the beginning with BBC's short, informative flash animation and a small image of the spacecraft with labeled key parts...
...European Space Agency In addition to the basic information about the Cassini Orbiter, the Huygens Probe, and its launch, the European Space Agency's site includes a 3D model of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, videos and a detailed account of the Cassini-Huygens' mission objectives...
...billion miles away from Earth, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is bearing down on SATURN. Much of our knowledge of that planet dates from Voyager 1's close encounter in 1980, which TIME chronicled in a cover story...
Saturn has been ready for its close-up for a long time. On June 30 the planet is going to get it as the $1.4 billion Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, after a journey of 2.2 billion miles, fires its retrorockets and puts itself into Saturnian orbit...
...spacecraft will penetrate that atmosphere with radar and a free-flying 705-lb. conical probe (the Huygens half of the Cassini-Huygens tandem), scheduled to plunge into the Titanian skies on Jan. 14, 2005. Huygens will make a 2 1/2-hr. parachute descent, transmitting data all the way. When it touches down, having made the most distant landing ever by an earthly probe, it is expected to survive for no more than half an hour. Cassini, designed to live much longer, should be beaming back data until...