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... launch because of high winds, the takeoff was flawless. Before the launch, activists had protested Cassini 's fuel source, 72 pounds (33 kilograms) of radioactive plutonium; to calm public anxiety, NASA ... . About seven years into the mission, NASA planned for Cassini to release a disc-shaped Huygens Probe toward Titan. Throughout the mission, Cassini was to make more than 40 close flybys of ...

... . BIRCH TERRAFORMING MARS QUICKLY 331 - R.L.S. TAYLOR PARATERRAFORMING: THE WORLDHOUSE CONCEPT 341 - - '''THE CASSINI/HUYGENS MISSION TO SATURN''' '''EDITOR: P.R. RATCLIFF''' '''VOL. 45 No. 9 SEPTEMBER 1992''' - M ... THE COMPOSITE INFRARED SPECTROMETER 381 - A.J. COATES et al THE ELECTRON SPECTROMETER FOR THE CASSINI SPACECRAFT 387 - - '''NANOTECHNOLOGY''' '''EDITOR: S. SANTOLI''' '''VOL. 45 No. 10 OCTOBER 1992 ''' - C. PETERSON NANOTECHNOLOGY ...

... addition to an indication the storm was more forceful than scientists previously thought. Data from Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) instrument revealed the storm's powerful discharge sent the temperature ... surprise," said Goddard's Michael Flasar, the CIRS team lead. A complementary paper led by Cassini team associate Leigh Fletcher of Oxford University, England, describes how the two stratospheric beacons merged ...

... ( ESA ) engineers announced the discovery of a flaw in the European receiver on NASA's Cassini spacecraft , prompting an inquiry into why engineers had not identified the problem before NASA had ... the data that Huygens's six instruments would generate. Cassini and Huygens launched on 15 October 1997, with Huygens scheduled to separate from Cassini on 6 November 2004, break through Titan's ...

... developed a problem with a maneuvering system. NASA permitted Cassini to continue making observations that did not requiring pointing. On 17 December, Cassini 's No. 2 reaction wheel had begun to require ... switch from electrical power to a hydrazine-thrusting system, which Cassini needed to conserve for use in its primary Saturn mission. Cassini Program Manager Robert T. Mitchell remarked that, if tests of ...

... 's other moons, scientists had theorized that the moon is a captive object of Saturn. Cassini 's analyses of Phoebe indicated that the diminutive moon's surface is composed of carbon ... similarities between Phoebe's composite materials and materials observed in comets. The Cassini spacecraft was one of two in the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint project of ESA, the Italian Space Agency ...

... Agency , and NASA, the mission comprised two spacecraft: the orbiter Cassini and the probe Huygens. The space agencies had planned for Cassini to conduct 76 orbits of Saturn during a four-year ... Orbit Around the Ringed Planet,” ESA news release 36-2004, 1 July 2004; Guy Gugliotta, “ Cassini First To Orbit Saturn,” Washington Post, 1 July 2004. American astronaut E. Michael Fincke and ...

NASA announced the appointment of Earle K. Huckins III as Cassini Program Director in the Office of Space Science. An international program, Cassini was designed to explore the planet Saturn, its rings ... the surrounding environment. Scheduled for launch on a Titan IV Centaur in October 1997, the Cassini spacecraft was to swing by Venus, the Earth, and Jupiter before being inserted into orbit ...

... terminal countdown of a demonstration test of the Titan IV-B rocket designed for the Cassini mission to Saturn, engineers noticed liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen leaking from the Centaur stage of the rocket. NASA had scheduled Cassini 's launch for early October 1997. NASA officials delayed the launch until they could complete ...

... coming about 10 times closer to the moon than Voyager 2 had come in 1981. Cassini's closest approach had occurred over the moon's mysterious dark terrain, which scientists had ... images of Iapetus had a resolution of 8 kilometers (4.97 miles) per pixel, but Cassini had produced a resolution of about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) per pixel. (BBC News, “Cassini Passes 'Two-Faced' Moon,” 3 January 2005.) 2005 January 2005 January Jan 1 2005 1 ...

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