Update: Huygens Probe Set to Detach From Cassini Orbiter Tonight
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The Huygens probe, built and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is bolted to Cassini and fed electrical power through an umbilical cable.
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Saturn&#39;s haze-shrouded moon Titan gets a second look today from the international Cassini Huygens spacecraft. Cassini&#39;s planned flyover altitude of 746 miles above the moon is the same as its October flyby.
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Europe&#39;s Huygens probe successfully separated from NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft Friday night, on its way to a mid-January rendezvous with Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan.
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On December 24th, 2004, at 7:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, the Cassini spacecraft will release a probe that has hitched a ride all the way from Earth out to Saturn. The Huygens Probe, named after the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan and Saturn's rings in the 17th century and built by the European Space Agency, will spend 22 days traveling to its rendezvous with Saturn's mysterious moon Titan on January 14th. ...
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At the beginning of next year, the descent probe, Huygens, will try to sample what lies beneath the thick atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Huygens passed its last in-flight checks and scientists are preparing for the perilous, one-way trip towards the surface.
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After hitching a ride on the back of NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter for seven years through more than 2 billion miles of space, the European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens space probe is finally stepping out on its own.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn.
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The Cassini spacecraft is but hours away from a second flyby of the Saturian moon Titan set for Monday , December 13 with the closest approach image data arriving at about 8 PM.
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PASADENA, Calif. The Cassini spacecraft is expected to reach its closest approach to Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan this morning. The international spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn in June and is expected
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LA CANADA, Calif.  - A European-designed space  probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge  toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey  researchers hope will end with answers about one of the most  puzzling bodies in the solar system.
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On December 24 th , 2004, at 7:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, the Cassini spacecraft will release a probe that has hitched a ride all the way from Earth out to Saturn.
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The Cassini spacecraft will swoop near Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan today, revealing features on the surface in the best detail yet.
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LOS ANGELES -- The NASA spacecraft Cassini, which is carrying a European Space Agency probe, cut off communications with controllers on Monday as it prepared to peer beneath a veil of smog shrouding Saturn&#39;s moon, Titan.
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A wok-shaped science probe carrying a Colorado-built camera is on target for a Jan. 14 plunge to the surface of Saturn&#39;s enigmatic moon Titan after it successfully separated from the Cassini spacecraft Friday night.
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Cassini has snapped an image of the Huygens probe it has just despatched to study Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The image, taken some 12 hours after release, shows the 2.7m-wide robot lab moving away from its mothership.
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The international Cassini spacecraft launched a probe Friday on a three-week free-fall toward Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, where it will plunge into the hazy atmosphere and descend by parachute while its science instruments and cameras make observations.
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The cord will be cut today, and a billion-dollar baby will be on its own. Space scientists at the University of Arizona and around the world will find out tomorrow if the 9-foot-wide, saucer-shaped Huygens probe has been properly launched for its Jan.