The American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to destroy itself by plunging into the planet's atmosphere. It survived for ...
The international Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has executed the course correction that will send it to destruction at the end of the week. The probe flew within 120,000km of the giant moon Titan ...
The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...
Everyone knows about the Cassini mission, but what’s often overlooked is that on January 14, 2005, it jettisoned a small probe called Huygens. It made a spectacular film (above) of its 2.5-hour ...
Solar and planetary radio astronomy involving data anaysis for the Wind, STEREO, Cassini, and Juno spacecraft and the design of lunar-based radio astronomy arrays, solar wind activity including ...
Huygens did not have the capability to transmit data back to Earth. And it relied on the Cassini spacecraft flying overhead. Instead of having to carry something big enough to transmit the billion ...
Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon ...
The Cassini probe collected the radar data Poggiali and his colleagues used during four flybys on May 17, June 18, and October 24, 2014, and again on November 14, 2016. The radar, equipped on the ...
The probe landed in northern China on Tuesday afternoon in the Inner Mongolian region. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,” Zhang Kejian ...