Cassini Maneuver Experience: Finishing Inner Cruise
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997.
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The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched in 1997.
The Cassini mission to Saturn was launched in 1997. It is an international effort to study the Saturnian system.
The baseline trajectory for the Cassini mission to Saturn is an Oct. 1997 VVEJGA (Venus-Venus-Earth-Jupiter-Gravity-Assist) trajectory. The current choice for an arrival date, June 25, 2004, provides a rare Phoebe flyby opportunity. The goal of this analysis is to determine the optimal feasible trajectory for any launch/arrival date combination.
The Cassini spaecraft will be the first one to visit the Saturnian system in more than two decades after the unprecedented flybys of the Voyager spacecraft in 1980 and 1981.
The Cassini mission to Saturn will start a second phase in the exploration of the Saturnian system