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... January 2006, the team had been using instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to track a lightning storm on Saturn. Cassini had detected radio emissions from the lightning but, at first, had ... times the strength of conventional lightning, the strongest lightening that his team had observed since Cassini entered Saturn’s orbit in 2006. ''University of Iowa News Services, “UI Researchers, Colleagues Find ...

... the planet. Galileo released the first-ever probe into the atmosphere of another planet. The Cassini spacecraft was launched in 1997, spent seven years reaching Saturn, and then went into orbit ... Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and parachuted to the surface, radioing scientific observations back to Cassini for relay to Earth. Titan' s atmosphere resembles that of primordial Earth and scientists feel ...

... , astrobiology senior scientist at NASA Headquarters Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California Hunter Waite, Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer team lead at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio Chris Glein, Cassini INMS team associate at SwRI William Sparks, astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...

... systems have enabled multi-decade mission lifetimes, powering missions such as Pioneer, Voyager, Viking and Cassini. Image:FS2018f9.15.jpg thumb right 250px Figure 9.15. The Mars Exploration Rovers, Sprit ... the lunar surface when it lands. Figures 9.17 illustrates a complex mission design – the Cassini/Huygens robotic science mission to Saturn – and illustrates multiple spacecraft, complex astrodynamics, and complex mission ...

... agreement with the European Space Agency ( ESA ) to cooperate in developing the Cassini space-craft to study Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft would consist of the Saturn Orbiter provided by NASA and the ... by NASA on a Titan IV/Centaur vehicle in April 1996. NASA would provide overall Cassini mission operations and ESA would support probe operations. The flight from launch to Saturn orbital ...

... mission was of great importance to NASA and it felt that ESA 's contribution to Cassini was not being coordinated fully with NASA. The pressure was creating sharp controversy among Europeans ... in Jerusalem. NASA pressure resulted from NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin 's instruction to NASA Cassini managers that they must assume responsibility for quality control not just for the orbiter but ...

... require the spacecraft to use more fuel for transport, leaving less for scientific exploration. The Cassini Mission to Saturn had received significant public criticism because 72 pounds (33 kilograms) of plutonium ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) had planned and engineered the building of the 23rd nuclear-powered Cassini for the 11-year mission. Experts from both sides of the Atlantic were optimistic that ...

... had completed repairs to the damaged insulation of the Huygens Probe , a part of the Cassini Mission to Saturn. Some scientists had feared that the tears to the insulation would set ... of nuclear power as the only safe and viable option for such a lengthy mission: " Cassini 's Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) ... have proven their safety and capability in 23 prior missions ...

... and Technology Policy formally approved the mid-October launch plan of the controversial plutonium-powered Cassini Mission. Critics had subjected to intense scrutiny the exploratory mission to Saturn and its moon ... Saturn has extremely dim sunlight not enough to provide adequate solar power to prevent the Cassini spacecraft 's instruments from freezing. NASA's policy required that the White House give final ...

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft completed the closest approach ever made to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, as ... as the only moon in the solar system known to have an atmosphere. Soon after Cassini pierced Titan's viscous atmosphere, the spacecraft beamed images of the moon's surface to ... on the planet are similar to those on Earth before the development of life. (ESA, “ Cassini-Huygens Makes First Close Approach to Titan,” ESAnews release, 26 October 2004. September 2004 September ...

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