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- Cassini Raw Images - NASA Solar System Exploration
This gallery contains the full record of the Cassini spacecraft’s raw images taken from Feb 20, 2004 to Cassini’s end of mission on Sept 15, 2017 The archive will remain available to all as a historical record
- Cassini: End of Mission - NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini’s finale plunge is a fitting and truly spectacular end for one of the most scientifically rich voyages yet undertaken in our solar system This end was planned for Cassini in 2010, at the beginning of its second ex-tended mission phase, known as the Solstice Mission
- Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) | Cassini Orbiter – NASA Solar . . .
The Radio and Plasma Wave Science, or RPWS, instrument detected radio and plasma waves, as well as the plasma medium through which Cassini passed, using a suite of antennas and sensors
- Saturn Surprises As Cassini Continues its Grand Finale
Cassini is now in the 15th of 22 weekly orbits that pass through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings The spacecraft began its finale on April 26 and will continue its dives until Sept 15, when it will make a mission-ending plunge into Saturn's atmosphere
- Spacecraft Power for Cassini - NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini’s electrical power source — Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) — have provided electrical power for some of the U S space program’s greatest suc-cesses, including the Apollo lunar landings and the Viking landers that searched for life on Mars
- Cassini–Huygens Spacecraft - NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini–Huygens Spacecraft On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system On its way, Cassini– Huygens passes Venus (twice), Earth, and Jupiter — arriving at the Saturn system on July 1, 2004
- Cassini
The Cassini RPWS instrument will measure the a c electric and magnetic fields in the interplanetary medium and planetary magnetospheres and will directly measure the electron density and temperature of the plasma in the vicinity of the spacecraft
- Presentation - NASA Solar System Exploration
Cassini Huygens Spacecraft Overview Largest outer planetary spacecraft ever built Weighed 5574 kg at Launch (3132 kg Propellant) Today’s weight is around 2710 kg with 422 kg Propellant left 3 maneuvers (Deep Space Maneuver, Saturn Orbit Insertion, Periapsis Raise Maneuver) used 2083 kg of propellant 58 microprocessors
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