Cassini-Huygens
Cassini-Huygens was a flagship mission that spent 13 years orbiting Saturn, providing unprecedented data on the gas giant's atmosphere, rings, and diverse moons. The mission concluded in 2017 with a planned descent into Saturn’s atmosphere after deploying the Huygens probe to the surface of Titan.
Identity
- Name
- Cassini-Huygens
- Slug
- cassini-huygens
- Status
- completed
Details
- Description
- Cassini-Huygens was a flagship mission that spent 13 years orbiting Saturn, providing unprecedented data on the gas giant's atmosphere, rings, and diverse moons. The mission concluded in 2017 with a planned descent into Saturn’s atmosphere after deploying the Huygens probe to the surface of Titan.
- End Date
- 2017-09-15
- Outcome
- Success
- Program
- Flagship Program
- Start Date
- 1997-10-15
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- Creation Time
- 4/12/2026, 10:31:21 PM
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- Updated Time
- 4/12/2026, 10:33:59 PM
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- Affiliations
- Organization Id
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- Role
- NASA
- Organization Id
- vh756eynjphsz33mrqgh7yb4297nmdf3
- Role
- ESA