Orbiter

Cassini

NASA · ESA · ASI

Orbited Saturn for 13 years and dropped the Huygens probe onto Titan; plunged into Saturn in 2017.

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The flight

  1. October 15, 1997

    Launch

  2. April 26, 1998

    Flies past Venus, 6,464 km away

  3. June 24, 1999

    Flies past Venus, 6,657 km away

  4. August 18, 1999

    Flies past Earth, 7,549 km away

  5. December 30, 2000

    Flies past Jupiter, 9,794,460 km away

  6. March 19, 2004

    Arrives at Saturn

  7. September 15, 2017

    JPL’s track of it ends

From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.

Cassini–Huygens

Mission to Saturn (1997–2017)

Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a joint space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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